Quote Originally Posted by mc12345678 View Post
Ahh yes, need to have the mbstring extension active in order to use that function... Typically active on a hosted site, and typically initially disabled on local computers... :) Go figure.
BTW, sorry, would find this setting/option in your php.ini file, where you have potentially listings of extension=

It may be prepopulated/but commented out with a semicolon at the beginning. On my local version I have
extension=php_mbstring.dll and then I have a comment after php_exif.dll that says that mbstring must precede the exif extension.. I don't know if I added that comment (found in my searches) or if it existed when in the setup, but thought I would share it. I don't use exif, but I had the comment there.