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How can i enable mbstring within a PHP app?

I am trying to run a PHP 7+ app but can’t get mbstring extension enabled.

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alexdo
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• August 6, 2022

Hello @tarekahmed,

Yes, you can do that by specifying the additional extensions in your composer.json file like this:

  1.     "require": {

  2.         "ext-mbstring": "*"

  3.     }

If you want to add into just add it bellow mbstring

"ext-intl": "*",

Hope that this helps!

KFSys
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• August 5, 2022

Hi @tarekahmed,

I’ll recommend checking out the following tutorial on the matter:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/buildpacks/php/

It says how you can add different extensions.

Additionally, here is a similar question that was asked some time back and has been answered:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/install-enable-php-intl-extension-in-app-platform

I think, you’ll find that interesting as well. Basically, to install the php mbstring you would need to use Composer with your app to specify that version.

Something like this should work:

{ “require”: { “ext-mbstring”: “*” } }