Hey Andrew,
That extension is used by the plugin and if missing it can cause some problems (mostly when you switch the views or change dates). We added this warning just to prevent possible bugs that may appear when “mbstring” is not installed.
Usually, it’s installed along with some other PHP extensions by default, but it’s missing in some configurations. To install this extension, please, contact your hosting provider or system administrator who’s responsible for server software updates. In most cases it’s an easy job for them to add it.
If your Calendar works well you can safely ignore this message. It supposed to be dismissible but we heard from our users that it appears all the time – we are going to fix that in the upcoming release.
Best regards,
Pavel.
Thanks Pavel – I shall follow your advice, most kind
Best
Andrew
Any plans on fixing this? Cause it’s been a month and that damn notice is driving me crazy! I dismiss that stupid thing 10 times a day!
Hi breathelifein,
Have you upgraded the plugin to the latest version?
We have the same issue.
Calendar Version 2.3.12
WP Version 4.5
And we still get the error also.
jomo
(@jonathanmoorebcsorg)
ho hum, I got: No package php-mbstring available.
any more details on the dependencies?
php –version
PHP 5.5.34 (cli) (built: Apr 21 2016 13:12:42)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
yum install php-mbstring
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* updates: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
base | 3.7 kB 00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
No package php-mbstring available.
Hi, Benjamin. Yes, I always update to the latest version of the plugin whenever one is available – and since upgrading to v 2.4.0, this message is showing up not just once on every page, whenever I load a new one, but TWICE. This is beyond annoying. Please, either get rid of it, or add a “dismiss message” on the admin panel.
(example: http://www.imagebam.com/image/65dfe9484305677)
The warning constantly appears even after this has been executed:
sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring
sudo phpenmod mbstring
sudo service apache2 restart
I have the currently latest versions of WordPress and plugins.
What is wrong? How can it be fixed?
