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search forums error [message #162533] Fri, 04 June 2010 20:30 Go to next message
lbrigman124 is currently offline  lbrigman124   United States
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I have a large message in the forums and I am running 3.0.1.

When I search for anything I get the following message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_substr() in
/var/www/html/forums/theme/default/search.php on line 1165

My searching does not find the function. Is this something
that was implement in development but didn't get pushed
to the released versions?

Re: search forums error [message #162534 is a reply to message #162533] Fri, 04 June 2010 21:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
lbrigman124 is currently offline  lbrigman124   United States
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It seems that posting a large message also breaks the search.
Even the topic search on my instance is broken.
I have a number as part of the topic. If I search on that it fails.
Re: search forums error [message #162535 is a reply to message #162534] Sat, 05 June 2010 06:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Google to the rescue: You need to install or recompile PHP with mb_string support.

I didn't realize that you can still get PHP without it. Running a very old release maybe?
Re: search forums error [message #162536 is a reply to message #162535] Sat, 05 June 2010 06:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php
mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option. See the Install section for details.


You're right! We need to double up the code to cater for both or explicitly tell people that they need mb_string support.
Re: search forums error [message #162537 is a reply to message #162535] Sun, 06 June 2010 05:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
lbrigman124 is currently offline  lbrigman124   
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Not that old.
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jan 4 2010 10:45:55)
Re: search forums error [message #162538 is a reply to message #162537] Sun, 06 June 2010 05:37 Go to previous message
lbrigman124 is currently offline  lbrigman124   
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Turns out I only needed to install the php-mbstring rpm.

I want a better list of dependencies.
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