How can i enable mbstring within a PHP app?

Hello @tarekahmed,

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

    "require": {
        "ext-mbstring": "*"
    }

If you want to add into just add it bellow mbstring

"ext-intl": "*",

Hope that this helps!

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”: “*” } }