MB string issue.....i am goin mad !!!!!!

[markusp]

Hello,
i have just installed sugar crm for my organization and i got the hosting from a local company.while installing i got a error that mb string not found? i contacted the admin and he removed that field itself but the MB string module was not installed.Now i want to implement email facility for my team members and i get a error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_encode_mimeheader() in /home/matrix7i/public_html/crm/include/Localization/Localization.php on line 307

as far as i know Mb strings are used for special chars like japanese etc not english....so why is this error showing up.Is there any way i can supresse this error by modifying localization.php file ???? i don't use any special languages other than english.

Is there any way out other than installing the mbstring????? Please help me ,i am in dire straits....

Here are the server details

Operating system - Linux
Kernel version - 2.4.21-20.EL
Machine Type - i686
Apache version - 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version - 5.8.4
Path to PERL - /usr/bin/perl
Path to sendmail - /usr/sbin/sendmail
PHP version - 5.1.6
MySQL version - 4.1.21-standard

Regards
Markus

[paikmoses]

Markus,

Try this: http://sugarcrm.openapp.org/?p=160

HTH.

Regards,

[sparcusa]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_encode_mimeheader() in /var/www/html/crm/include/Localization/Localization.php on line 307

I'm having the same problem. I went through PaikMoses excellent post. Made the changes to the php.ini file and ran
yum info php-mb_sting and got the following, which I assume means that mb-strings is installed

Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Name : php-mbstring
Arch : i386
Version: 4.3.9
Release: 3.22.3
Size : 920 k
Repo : update
Summary: A module for PHP applications which need multi-byte string handling
Description:
The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add
support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.

Do I need to rebuild php with the --enable-mbstring module?

HELP!

[paikmoses]

Yeah.

Make sure that you restart the apache server after making changes to the php.ini file.

Regards,