multibyte string support

I've just moved my web site from one server to another at the same
hosting company (I upgraded to a better package). Unfortunately one of
my WordPress plugins now complains about the absence of multibyte string
support in PHP on the new server.

What I don't understand is that phpinfo on that server

http://www.middns1.co.uk/~westdorseuk/phpinfo.php

shows the three important configuration settings were enabled, viz.

'--enable-mbstring=shared' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex'

However, I think there should also be be a separate section in the
phpinfo page relating specifically to the multibyte strings module, as
for instance on

http://www.ozpolitics.info/phpinfo.php

I'm guessing there must be some runtime settings that need to be used,
perhaps in php.ini. Any ideas?

I can't see anything here: http://uk.php.net/mbstring

but I'm not that familiar with PHP.

- Andrew

> I've just moved my web site from one server to another at the same hosting
> company (I upgraded to a better package). Unfortunately one of my
> WordPress plugins now complains about the absence of multibyte string
> support in PHP on the new server.
>
> What I don't understand is that phpinfo on that server
>
> http://www.middns1.co.uk/~westdorseuk/phpinfo.php
>
> shows the three important configuration settings were enabled, viz.
>
> '--enable-mbstring=shared' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex'
>
> However, I think there should also be be a separate section in the phpinfo
> page relating specifically to the multibyte strings module, as for
> instance on
>
> http://www.ozpolitics.info/phpinfo.php
>
> I'm guessing there must be some runtime settings that need to be used,
> perhaps in php.ini. Any ideas?
>
> I can't see anything here: http://uk.php.net/mbstring
>
> but I'm not that familiar with PHP.

The difference could quite possibly be caused by the fact that those 2
phpinfo pages are for different major versions of php (4 and 5). The fact
that the previous 1 has the configuration settings shows that that php did
in fact get compiled with support for that functionality.

Andrew McLean wrote:

> I've just moved my web site from one server to another at the same
> hosting company (I upgraded to a better package). Unfortunately one of
> my WordPress plugins now complains about the absence of multibyte string
> support in PHP on the new server.
>
> What I don't understand is that phpinfo on that server
>
> http://www.middns1.co.uk/~westdorseuk/phpinfo.php
>
> shows the three important configuration settings were enabled, viz.
>
> '--enable-mbstring=shared' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex'

'--enable-mbstring=shared'

Mbstring was compiled as an shared extension, check php.ini to make
sure extension=mbstring.so (and extension_dir='/path/to/extension/) or
extension='/path/to/extension/mbstring.so' has been set