Title: [bookingactivities_list] apache 500 / php error
Last modified: July 26, 2018
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# [bookingactivities_list] apache 500 / php error
* Resolved [niclasl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niclasl/)
* (@niclasl)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookingactivities_list-apache-500-php-error/)
* Hello guys!
* First of all, thank you for an awesome plugin!
Please keep up the good work!
* Secondly, I’m on WordPress 4.9.7 with BA version 1.5.6.
My site locale is d.
m.Y, H:i, Norwegian Bokmål.
* When adding the shortcode [bookingactivities_list] to a static page Apache gives
me a 500 error.
* I traced the error to function-bookings-system.php. I couldn’t understand all
the magic sourcery going on here so I just made it work as easy as I could. But
maybe this is something for you guys to look into when you have time?
* Starting on line 1570 I made some changes (commented out the original):
* ```
foreach( $formatted_events as $event ) {
// Format the event duration
$event[ 'duration' ] = '';
if( $event[ 'start' ] && $event[ 'end' ] ) {
//$event_start = bookacti_format_datetime( $event[ 'start' ], $datetime_format );
//$event_end = bookacti_format_datetime( $event[ 'end' ], $datetime_format );
$event_start = $event[ 'start' ];
$event_end = $event[ 'end' ];
// Format differently if the event start and end on the same day
$start_and_end_same_day = substr( $event_start, 0, 10 ) === substr( $event_end, 0, 10 );
if( $start_and_end_same_day ) {
$event_end = substr($event_end, 11,18 );
//$event_end = date_i18n( $time_format, strtotime( $event_end ) );
//$event_end = ! mb_check_encoding( $event_end, 'UTF-8' ) ? utf8_encode( $event_end ) : $event_end;
}
$class = $start_and_end_same_day ? 'bookacti-booking-event-end-same-day' : '';
$separator = $start_and_end_same_day ? $date_time_separator : $dates_separator;
// Place an arrow between start and end
$event[ 'duration' ] = '' . $event_start . ''
. '' . $separator . ''
. '' . $event_end . '';
}
```
* Best regards
Niclas Lindgren
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* Plugin Author [Booking Activities Team](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bookingactivities/)
* (@bookingactivities)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookingactivities_list-apache-500-php-error/#post-10536081)
* Hello Niclas,
* Thank you very much for your token of appreciation!
* It appears that the problem comes from either “[date_i18n()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/date_i18n)”
or “[utf8_encode()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php)“.
* I am glad you could patch it for now. Unfortunatly, this is not the only place
where this code is used so you may have other issues. Your patch will also be
removed each time you update Booking Activities. So we need to find the error
source and fix it for good.
* First of all, try to deactivate all your plugins except Booking Activities and
activate [Twenty Seventeen](https://fr.wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/)
theme instead of yours. Then, try again. If it works, the error comes from a
conflict.
* Then, trigger the error 500 page, note the date and time when the error appears,
and send me the PHP error log file and the date and time at [contact@booking-activities.fr](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookingactivities_list-apache-500-php-error/contact@booking-activities.fr?output_format=md).
It will (hopefully) allow me to backtrack the error.
* Regards,
Yoan Cutillas
* Thread Starter [niclasl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niclasl/)
* (@niclasl)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookingactivities_list-apache-500-php-error/#post-10538189)
* Many thanks for your swift reply Yoan!
* I’m afraid I wont have time to do it this week, but I enabled php logging and
just got the exception in the browser, does that help you a bit on the way maybe?
* Here is the error message for the bookingactivities_list:
`Fatal error: Uncaught
Error: Call to undefined function mb_check_encoding() in /home/dragogxd/public_html/
wp-content/plugins/booking-activities/functions/functions-global.php:939 Stack
trace: #0 /home/dragogxd/public_html/wp-content/plugins/booking-activities/functions/
functions-booking-system.php(1574): bookacti_format_datetime('mandag, juli 30...','
l, F jS, Y g:i ...') #1 /home/dragogxd/public_html/wp-content/plugins/booking-
activities/functions/functions-bookings.php(1221): bookacti_get_formatted_booking_events_list(
Array) #2 /home/dragogxd/public_html/wp-content/plugins/booking-activities/controller/
controller-shortcodes.php(153): bookacti_get_booking_list_rows(Array, Array,
2) #3 /home/dragogxd/public_html/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(319): bookacti_shortcode_bookings_list(
Array, '', 'bookingactiviti...') #4 [internal function]: do_shortcode_tag(Array)#
5 /home/dragogxd/public_html/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(197): preg_replace_callback('/\\[(\\[?)(
bookin...', 'do_shortcode_ta...', '