undefined function mb_convert_encoding() in PHP 4.3.8?

[ppowell]

print_r("UPDATE student SET uuid = concat(UUID(), '" . mb_convert_encoding('_' . randstring(16), 'UTF-8', 'auto') . "') WHERE uuid IS NULL OR uuid != '' LIMIT 1<P>");


produces


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_convert_encoding() in blah.php on line 1


Where line 1 is the print_r()

I'm using PHP 4.3.8, what on earth?!

Thanx
Phil

[samudasu]

Are you sure multi byte string functions are enabled in your server? They're not configured in by default. It doesn't appear that they are, that's why you're getting an undefined function error.

[bogu]

Hi hi hi, u find the solution for your other problem and now u get another probleme...

I think today is not such a good day for coding, for u ... :D

I run that line on my server and I'm using PHP 4.3.11 and it worked, I think that version of PHP is bugged...

[ppowell]

Are you sure multi byte string functions are enabled in your server? They're not configured in by default. It doesn't appear that they are, that's why you're getting an undefined function error.

IS there an alternative then? I tried utf8_encode() but that also fails to encode into UTF-8 encoding.

My MySQL query continues to fail because it still thinks the string is latin_1 even though I'm converting it to UTF-8

Phil