[SOLVED] Clean install: Submit New Story = Fatal error: Call to undefined function:

[starguy]

On an absolute fresh clean install of Pligg on Linux/Apache, when I do STEP 1 of Submit a New Story, the browser returns the following error:


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: utf8_decode() in /home/mark/public_html/drive0/www/pligg2/libs/utf8/native/core.php on line 217


Every other function of PLIGG seems to function fine, other than I can't submit stories at all because of this error. I thought maybe I had screwed up a configuration, so I did an absolute total clean install from scratch, without changing a single setting, and still get this error.


I look at line 217 of core.php, and find this call to utf8_decode()

if (!isset($strlen)) {
// see notes
$strlen = strlen(utf8_decode($str));
}


I look all through core.php where other related subroutines are defined, and can not find any subroutine defintion for utf8_decode()

Where is this subroutine supposed to be defined...

[starguy]

I assume utf8_decode() is a function built into PHP? I'm using PHP 4.3 / Linux / Apache. How do I test if its present, or figure out what is going wrong? Is there anyway I can hack around and bypass this function?


Register for a username, and try and submit a story, and you run into the error:

http://shellprompt.no-ip.info/drive0...g/register.php

[starguy]

I figured it out, you need PHP 5.x to run with Pligg 9.x.

PHP 4.3 does not apparently have the utf8_decode() function.

[AshDigg]

I'm working with someone to try to figure this out. They're running PHP 5.0.4 and are also missing the utf8_decode function. As a temporary fix, we added this to the end of config.php.

 function utf8_decode($in_str)
{
    return $in_str;
} 
  

[AshDigg]

Another user had this same problem and was able to resolve it by installing the php-xml package.

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