installation problems

Hi All im new here to the community and already need some help. i am planning a bigger venture and am still to decide on the software i wish to use so i downloaded Dolphin to test it on a windows machine with xampp installed so far so good

i Place all files in the correct places and started the intallation. first bug not all folders where there so i manually created them. then the install was smooth till the end i revesed all rights deleted the install folder and tried the newly installed site only to get the mesage "It seems to be script is not installed." so i deleted everything including the mySQL database and started from scratch ..... now when i get to Cron Jobs i get a HUGE error message that starts with

Error while executing: SET NAMES \'utf8\';
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\'utf8\'' at line 1

Error while executing: ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT CHARACTER SET \'utf8\' COLLATE \'utf8_unicode_ci\';
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\'utf8\' COLLATE \'utf8_unicode_ci\'' at line 1

Error while executing: CREATE TABLE `AdminBanList` (`ProfID` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',`Time` int(20) NOT NULL default \'0\',`DateTime` datetime NOT NULL default \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\') ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\'0\',`Time` int(20) NOT NULL default \'0\',`DateTime` datetime NOT NULL default' at line 1

this goes on for every line in the .sql file

I have read all the post on this site about such errors and on modmy thing site to no avail i then manualy installed the sql file to myphpadmin alson to no luck.

mysql is vesion 5xxxx so i hope it is not that and is wierd that it worked fine the first time.

Any help at all is very much needed and welcomed and appriciated

Cheers DPC

Sorry wish I could help :D I have been deleting uploading deleting etc for over 2 weeks now.  I don't know anything but you say it is missing files?  I wonder if that is my issue?  I got that message also "It seems to be script is not installed."

I am about ready to try this again now.  Another fresh start but I tell ya I am getting another headache :D

only folders where missing i just needed to creat new ones but my concern now is the sql file

This is the start of the error i get

Did you delete your old crons?  I know silly question :)

not silly at all i deleted all files and folders on the server and all datadase files and the datadase itself to so i thought it would be deleted with it but if not where would it be

you have to go into the cron where you set them up just the same except delete them there

because it is only a test i left them as is from the install so i did not set them up

Have you mb_string extension enabled??

You can check via phpinfo() that mbstring appears within the information page.

Default PHP installation does not always have the mb_string extension enabled, but Dolphin requires that you run the PHP multibyte-string extension which is not enabled by default.