utf8_(en|de)code removed from php7?

Question

I recently switched to PHP 7 on my development server, which has worked just fine - until now.

Since I updated to PHP 7.0.3-10+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (ea

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem and for me,

sudo apt-get install php-patchwork-utf8

and restarting the apache2 server solved the problem (on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Just install php7.0-xml package. Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-xml

Edit: Restart apache2 to load the new package.

Answer 3

As the top voted answer did not work for me i found yet another package for php7 which (obvious by its name) fixed it for me

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring

Answer 4

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with php 5.6, try:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 5

The utf8_decode and utf8_encode functions are accessible in php 7:

function.utf8-encode - manual - php

This is because the php-xml package is missing in your php installation.

If your server is running Mandrake, enter "urpmi php-xml".

If your server is running EASYPHP on Windows, click on the EASYPHP logo to activate the php-xml module.

On debian or ubuntu try :

apt-get install php7.0-xmlrpc

Answer 6

If you are on CentOS, following command should work:

yum install php-xml