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
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?
php ver 5.1.2
php_mbstring.dll does exist and is version 5.1.2.2
phpinfo.txt attached.
Thanks Ken
I Appreciate all the help and time this has taken.
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
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".
Maybe you could have a lookt at http://es2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php
Saludos. Iñaki.