[resolved] Not able to post to new serendipity installation

[eburrows]

I just installed Serendipity on my Gentoo Box running Apache 2.0.55, PHP 5.1.2, and MySQL 5.0.19-r1. I had issues getting MYSQL support to compile with PHP for some reason but that is now resolved.

I downloaded serendiity-1.0-beta2 and installed it. I configured the database and all that fun stuff and finally got to my initial start page. I went into the adminstration panel added a new entry and when I clicked save I get the following error..

Fatal error: Call to undefined function utf8_decode() in /home/eburrows/test/serendipity/include/functions_permalinks.inc.php on line 103

Can ayone provide some insight into what is causing this issue? Is it an option that I didn't compile into apache? I did a search through the forum with the error descirption but didn't stumble across an answer (I am sure this has probably been asked before but maybe I am just not using the right search keywords).

If someone could shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Evan

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

"utf8_decode" is a standard PHP function, so it seems you accidentaly did not compile support for it. But this library is required, it is part of the "XML" library that is by default enabled in PHP, so please recompile your PHP "with-xml".

Best regards,
Garvin

[eburrows]

Thanks Garvin,

That solved the problem

thanks for the help!