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13 thoughts on “Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”

  1. Just change and make your plugins php5 only… the more folks do that, the pressure that can be brought to bear on these hosts running ancient software… we need to get php4 sunsetted… sorry, just my 2 cents…

  2. Mr Papa: Currently a few of my plugins can be used only on PHP 5 =D. Thanks for the support and voicing out =D

  3. A workaround for this error is using utf8_decode($text) instead of using the default html_entity_decode() used in the plugins.

    This would work fine only if your blog is utf8 encoded, but the error only hapens (as i could see from the php bug page) when you try to decode utf8 text, and it is default to WordPress anyway.

    eg: for the post rating plugin, replace the line 573 from wp-postratings.php from:

    $text=html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,get_option(‘blog_charset’));

    to:

    $text = utf8_decode($text);

    Of course, you should check if the blog really is utf8 before doing so.

    Best Regards,
    Guilherme Silva, PMP
    http://www.gerenciamentoeconomico.com.br

  5. I’m curious, I totally missed where in the documentation that it requires php5. My site broke, and my hosting doesn’t provide php 5, and I can’t roll back to 1.2 for some reason, need to check a few other things. I think LC has probably the best widgets out there, and quite likely the best documented as well, so I’ll not gripe too loudly.

    I’ll admit maybe I missed something, but to say “just upgrade to php 5” is a little out of touch with reality and a bit junior. I’m a huge advocate of php 5 and it powers most of the sites i run professionally, but php5 adoption is still lagging behind.

  6. @dave: After I roll out the plugin then I realize that it is not working for PHP4 as I always develop in PHP5. PHP4 just makes life difficult for me to develop at times.

  7. PHP4 makes life difficult for a lot of people. 😉 I just gave my current blog hosting a “warning”, if no action I’ll move them over to my hosting with the rest of my PHP5 sites.

    ps – if I may be so bold, you may want to add a warning in your docs about that requirement. I googled for the error and found hundreds of sites.

  8. If you are running on a Godaddy server:

    What was the problem?

    The problem was that GoDaddy runs php version 4 and version 5 concurrently with the Linux hosting configuration 2.0 . Facebook applications only run on php version 5. When checking the version of php, the script indicates that GoDaddy is running php version 4.3.

    How to fix this?

    Well, there are a lot of proposed fixes out there. Difficult to find and GoDaddy documentation and customer service is unclear and muddled. The simple fix, include a .htaccess file in the root directory with the following line below:

    AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

  9. Hi all,

    My solution is quiet the same.

    -Look for the following line:

    $text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option(‘blog_charset’));

    -Replace the line with the following:

    $text = utf8_decode($text);

    Regards,
    Björn

  10. Thanks a lot, Housed. That fixed it the post views plugin on our site, much appreciated.

    Just need to get our host to upgrade to PHP5 now.

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