php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
Anybody able to tell me:
a) will this improve speed or functionality of my installation
b) how to do it if it will benefit my site!
Many thanks
Si
php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Simon Scholey -
Number of replies: 19
In reply to Simon Scholey
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
Hi Simon,
starting with Moodle 1.5 and widely used in next Moodle 1.6 a lot of strings functions are being processed by a new text library in order to be able to handle different charsets properly, specially the UTF-8 one.
This library tries to do its work by using the mbstring or iconv libraries and, if they aren't present, a fallback mechanism to use internal functions is used instead. As these internal functions are written in PHP code, they will be slower that their mbstring/iconv counterparts.
And this is the primary reason to recommend mbstring/iconv. They are solid libraries and pretty faster than the alternative internal (PHP) functions.
Ciao
starting with Moodle 1.5 and widely used in next Moodle 1.6 a lot of strings functions are being processed by a new text library in order to be able to handle different charsets properly, specially the UTF-8 one.
This library tries to do its work by using the mbstring or iconv libraries and, if they aren't present, a fallback mechanism to use internal functions is used instead. As these internal functions are written in PHP code, they will be slower that their mbstring/iconv counterparts.
And this is the primary reason to recommend mbstring/iconv. They are solid libraries and pretty faster than the alternative internal (PHP) functions.
Ciao
In reply to Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni William Fraser -
Any explain to me in simple terms how to install/enable this?
In reply to William Fraser
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ken Wilson -
Uncomment this line in your php.ini:
extension=php_mbstring.dll
Hope this helps!
Ken
extension=php_mbstring.dll
Hope this helps!
Ken
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni William Fraser -
By uncomment do you mean remove the ';' at the start of the line? If so it didn't work.
In reply to William Fraser
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ken Wilson -
William
Are you using Linux or Windows and do you have a hosted moodle or direct access? Also it would be helpful if you could attach your php.ini and your the output from phpinfo (in moodle 1.6 this is in Administration, Miscellaneous, Environment - there is a button at the bottom of the page).
Ken
Are you using Linux or Windows and do you have a hosted moodle or direct access? Also it would be helpful if you could attach your php.ini and your the output from phpinfo (in moodle 1.6 this is in Administration, Miscellaneous, Environment - there is a button at the bottom of the page).
Ken
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni William Fraser -
Hi Ken
I am using Windows and it is direct access. Attached is the php.ini file. How would you like me to display the phpinfo file?
In reply to William Fraser
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ken Wilson -
Can you double check that you have the file php_mbstring.dll in the directory c:\php\ext and that it is the correct version (right click, properties, version, file version should be 5.1.4.x - if you're running php 5.1.4).
For the phpinfo, there is a more efficient method: at the command prompt, type php -i > phpinfo.txt. Attach the phpinfo.txt to your post.
Ken
For the phpinfo, there is a more efficient method: at the command prompt, type php -i > phpinfo.txt. Attach the phpinfo.txt to your post.
Ken
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni William Fraser -
php ver 5.1.2
php_mbstring.dll does exist and is version 5.1.2.2
phpinfo.txt attached.
In reply to William Fraser
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ken Wilson -
Looking at the phpinfo I can see mbstring has loaded:
mbstring
Multibyte Support => enabled
Multibyte string engine => libmbfl
Multibyte (japanese) regex support => enabled
Multibyte regex (oniguruma) version => 3.7.1
So all's well and your php is using the library in the background.
Ken
mbstring
Multibyte Support => enabled
Multibyte string engine => libmbfl
Multibyte (japanese) regex support => enabled
Multibyte regex (oniguruma) version => 3.7.1
So all's well and your php is using the library in the background.
Ken
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni William Fraser -
Thanks Ken
I Appreciate all the help and time this has taken.
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Jose A. Ruiz -
hi Ken
I have linux (RH enterprice 4) and need help installin or enable the MSBTRING. i need to recompilate de Php, instaling a RPM or editing the php.ini.
TKZ
I have linux (RH enterprice 4) and need help installin or enable the MSBTRING. i need to recompilate de Php, instaling a RPM or editing the php.ini.
TKZ
In reply to Jose A. Ruiz
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Iñaki Arenaza -
Red Has has mbstring extension packaged as a standard RPM as part of the system. Have a look in your installation CDs.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Saludos. Iñaki.
In reply to Iñaki Arenaza
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Jose A. Ruiz -
gracias Iñaki... voy a buscar en los discos...
muy amable por responder tan rápido ;)
muy amable por responder tan rápido ;)
In reply to Jose A. Ruiz
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ahmed Metwally -
Please guys i have same question of Jose. I really need answer. I'd like to enable the mbstring under Linux. The following is the mbstring section in my php.ini. Should i change or uncomment anything to enable it.
[mbstring]
; language for internal character representation.
;mbstring.Xlanguage= Japanese
; internal/script encoding.
; Some encoding cannot work as internal encoding.
; (e.g. SJIS, BIG5, ISO-2022-*)
;mbstring.internal_encoding = EUC-JP
; http input encoding.
;mbstring.http_input = auto
; http output encoding. mb_output_handler must be
; registered as output buffer to function
;mbstring.http_output = SJIS
; enable automatic encoding translation accoding to
; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are
; converted to internal encoding by setting this to On.
; Note: Do _not_ use automatic encoding translation for
; portable libs/applications.
;mbstring.encoding_translation = Off
; automatic encoding detection order.
; auto means
;mbstring.detect_order = auto
; substitute_character used when character cannot be converted
; one from another
;mbstring.substitute_character = none;
; overload(replace) single byte functions by mbstring functions.
; mail(), ereg(), etc are overloaded by mb_send_mail(), mb_ereg(),
; etc. Possible values are 0,1,2,4 or combination of them.
; For example, 7 for overload everything.
; 0: No overload
; 1: Overload mail() function
; 2: Overload str*() functions
; 4: Overload ereg*() functions
;mbstring.func_overload = 0
In reply to Ahmed Metwally
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ken Wilson -
As Iñaki points out, most linux distributions have mbstring available as a package which you can add manually. Search the rpmfind.net database, download using wget and then install using rpm -ivh. Alternatively, if you have yum, type "yum install php-mbstring".
In reply to Ken Wilson
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Ahmed Metwally -
Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately the yum did not work out. If I got and installed the rpm package, should I reconfigure the php?
In reply to Ahmed Metwally
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni kiran solanki -
Hi I am trying to install mbstring on the following system:
Windows 2003
Apache 2.2.6
PHP 5.2.5
moodle 1.8.3
It says that this is missing. When i try to install the extension from the msi installer i can not find the extension 'mbstring'
I go to the php.ini and there is details on mbstring as stated as the follows:
[mbstring]
; language for internal character representation.
;mbstring.Xlanguage= Japanese
; internal/script encoding.
; Some encoding cannot work as internal encoding.
; (e.g. SJIS, BIG5, ISO-2022-*)
;mbstring.internal_encoding = EUC-JP
; http input encoding.
;mbstring.http_input = auto
; http output encoding. mb_output_handler must be
; registered as output buffer to function
;mbstring.http_output = SJIS
; enable automatic encoding translation according to
; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are
; converted to internal encoding by setting this to On.
; Note: Do _not_ use automatic encoding translation for
; portable libs/applications.
;mbstring.encoding_translation = Off
; automatic encoding detection order.
; auto means
;mbstring.detect_order = auto
; substitute_character used when character cannot be converted
; one from another
;mbstring.substitute_character = none;
; overload(replace) single byte functions by mbstring functions.
; mail(), ereg(), etc are overloaded by mb_send_mail(), mb_ereg(),
; etc. Possible values are 0,1,2,4 or combination of them.
; For example, 7 for overload everything.
; 0: No overload
; 1: Overload mail() function
; 2: Overload str*() functions
; 4: Overload ereg*() functions
;mbstring.func_overload = 0
; enable strict encoding detection.
;mbstring.strict_encoding = Off
There is no 'extension=php_mbstring'
Any ideas????
In reply to kiran solanki
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni Iñaki Arenaza -
Maybe you could have a lookt at http://es2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php
Saludos. Iñaki.
In reply to Iñaki Arenaza
Re: php_extension mbstring is recommended to be installed/enabled
ni kiran solanki -
Thanks very much, sorry for the bad formatting in my previous post.