Bypassing MB Strings module and Sugar when installing on shared hosting

[omoratin]

Hi,

How do you install Sugar on the shared hosting environement where the MB strings module is not present?
I am doing that for the intranet of the company that hired me and would love to be able to install and see what happens, even without that.
Thanks for your help

O.

[ruchida]

I have not used it but what about using an mbstring emulator?

1. Just download it and unzip it into an any directory under your SugarCRM root directory.

2. Include mb-emulator.php in any common php file (which I have not identified yet though...) like below;

 if (!extension_loaded('mbstring')) {
include('mb-emulator.php');
} 
  

The best file which should include mb-emulator.php will be config.php but it is not yet created before you install Sugar. So include/utils.php or install.php may be the second option for the moment.

[Markku]

MB strings module is crucial for Sugar 4.5, please see SugarChris' (one of the most visible Sugar developer's) comment here:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...5893#post55893

Hopefully ruchida's solution will work for you.

[sazmy]

Hello,

you will need to add the MBSTRING emulator in the file $SUGAR_INSTAL_DIR/install/checkSystem.php

put it in the third or fourth line, after the top two checks

Kind Regards
Samer
ITRize

[omoratin]

Thanks. I'll try that the next time. I installed a former version.

[Antonio]

MB strings module is crucial for Sugar 4.5, please see SugarChris' (one of the most visible Sugar developer's) comment here:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...5893#post55893

Hopefully ruchida's solution will work for you.

Agreed, however, if you're on MacOS X with the latest Developer Kit (which installs with GCC 3.3 and 4.0.1), MBStrings won't compile with the rest of PHP 5.1.x.
Downgrading the SDK and GCC compiler results in issues with compiling the MySQL and MySQLi extensions.
No one's quite sure whether it's the OS Developer's Tools or PHP which is the root of the issue (no pun intended), and this is definitely a problem for those who like to roll their own.

I speak from two solid days of attempting to compile and install PHP 5.1.6, 5.1.4, then 6.x (unstable CVS) just to see if ti would work, before giving in to a packaged installer (Entropy PHP for Apache 2).

An MBStrings emulator, if it performs as well as the real thing, would be a viable solution to the issue, but ONLY if there is no degradation in performance.

The only better solution would be some way of installing MBStrings separately from the standard Darwin Shell PHP install.

Can anyone comment on the performance of the emulator or possibility of installing the module seperately from the rest of PHP?
I've Googled the hell out of the latter of the two and found nothing, save for one option made available to SUSE Linux users.