mb_substr without extension

[zeberrun]

hello,

mb_substr extension is not added to my server in php. in order to mb_substr i can use the prelacement line below but the characters do not support UTF-8,

ori code
mb_substr(strip_tags($best_sellers['products_name']), 0, 25, 'UTF-8').' ...';

i tried html_entity_decode, htmlspecialchar.. and so but i did not made it.

UTF-8 must be added somehow.

replacement code
substr(strip_tags($best_sellers['products_name']), 0, 25).' ...' . '</a>';

regards

[Weedpacket]

If you mean $best_sellers['products_name'] contains characters that are not properly encoded then

• [man]utf8_encode[/man] to convert $best_sellers['products_name'] into UTF-8, or better

• Fix the data going into $best_sellers['products_name'] so that it is already UTF-8 encoded to begin with.

[zeberrun]

thx for expl,

but my database is utf-8, my php pages are utf-8 w/out bom by notepad++.
everything works perfect. only this module in main page comes like this Balonu &#65533; ...

if mb_substr was supported i would have no problem.

utf8 encode is not recommended utf-8 formatted sites in the article.

"Fix the data going into $" my datas are shown correct all the site but this best sellers module.

the only way seems to me is to inject anyhow utf 8 to ths substr.

but how?