Widget's "MBCS" warnings? Give this workaround a try!

[GaMerZ]

instead of error_reporting(0); you might want to try

Code:

ini_set('error_reporting', 0);

also.

But the best way is to upgrade to PHP5. No idea whether you read my blog post http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/06/09/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode/

[eddyra]

I like this plugin, but the latest version 1.3 does not work with my wordpress 2.5.1. I tried put error reporting (0); solution in the config.php file, htaccess at various times and neither solution worked.

Downgrade to old version:

1- Deactivate the latest plugin.
2- Download previous version 1.11, open wp-postviews folder and transfer postviews folder (NOT WP-POSTVIEW folder) to wp-content/plugins.
3- Activate the 1.11 plugin..

You still can use this plugin until your host upgrade to PHP5.2 or something. Its work for me.

www.eddyra.net

[eddyra]

Never delete your plugin or you will lose all the 'views' data.

[GaMerZ]

nope will not lose unless you uninstall it.

[djdeep]

Adding

Code:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

in your .htaccess file only works if on the server there is PHP 5.x installed. Many servers have both PHP 4 and PHP 5 installed and this is a way to switch between them. For the other hosting servers that won't do any good.

Try this:

Code:

Guilherme Silva, PMP Says:

June 24th, 2008 (2 weeks ago) at 09:59
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

[Ttech]

Um...  Thats not right.... Adding php5 will make it use php5 even if there is php4 installed

[Richard Palace]

I am still at php4, so the solution I am using is the following and is working.

1. Open wp-postratings.php
2. Find

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));

3. Replace with

if(( version_compare( phpversion(), '5.0' ) < 0 ) && (strtolower(get_option('blog_charset')) == 'utf-8')) {
   $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES);
   $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl);
   $text = strtr ($source, $trans_tbl);
   $text = utf8_encode($text);
}else{
   // url decode (phpversion =< 5.0 or get_option('blog_charset')!= utf-8 )
   $text = @html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));
}

[GaMerZ]

Thanks for sharing =)

[lndasa]

The workaround error_reporting(0); in wp-config.php doesn't seem to work please let me know if there is any other.

[GaMerZ]

Last comment http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/06/09/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode/

[relejosh]

I tried the fix of using error_reporting(0) but as others have posted I didn't have a home.php as directed.  I came to another solution before seeing other suggestions about where else to put that error_reporting(0) line.  And while it may be cleaner to use the error_reporting function, I am surprised no one has mentioned this .... Simply put @ in front of the line of code that is printing all of the php warnings.  Generally you want to find and solve the source of error reporting.  But when its just warnings or other messages that you know you can disregard, then its safe to use this technique.

So, specifically in wp-content/plugins/wp-email/wp-email.php on line 338 I have this line of code:
                $text = @html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));

Notice the @ in front of html_entity_decode.  See this php note for more information, but this php shortcut basically suppresses all error reporting for that specific function.  And error_reporting is a php function as well (I didn't know that until just now actually).  So either solution should hopefully work.  Using @ in front of the offending function worked for me.

Josh

[relejosh]

Sry, I didn't post the php note that I intended to.  Here's the php documentation I found on error_reporting (http://us.php.net/error_reporting).  Here's a doc explaining how to use @ to hide errors (http://us.php.net/operators.errorcontrol)

Josh

[GaMerZ]

Hi Josh, that is a good work around, damn didn't thought of that. Thanks alot