call to undefined function mb_strimwidth

Question

Months ago I made a short code that uses mb_strimwidth() to exactly fit some text into a table cell, putting dots at the end of a truncated string. Now, after some

Answer 1

Just got this issue, if you are using linux just install the package php-mbstringand restart Apache.

sudo apt-get install php-mbstring
sudo service apache2 restart

If you are using specific PHP version, you may need to run the following:

sudo apt-get install php7.x-mbstring
sudo service apache2 restart

Replace 7.x by the exact PHP version.