Re: "pear install mailparse" command returns extension not installed error - at wit's end, please help

I'm afraid that's not the problem. There is a mbstring section in my PHP installation which appers when I call php_info(). It looks like this: mbstring Multibyte Support enabled Japanese support enabled Simplified chinese support enabled Traditional chinese support enabled Korean support enabled Russian support enabled Multibyte (japanese) regex support enabled mbstring extension makes use of "streamable kanji code filter and converter", which is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Directive Local Value Master Value mbstring.detect_order /no value/ /no value/ mbstring.encoding_translation Off Off mbstring.func_overload 0 0 mbstring.http_input pass pass mbstring.http_output pass pass mbstring.internal_encoding /no value/ /no value/ mbstring.language neutral neutral mbstring.substitute_character /no value/ /no value/ From this I deduce that mbstring is enabled correctly under PHP. See a different post for a new error I am getting. Marek Kilimajer wrote:

Philippe wrote:

Hello, I have just installed Apache 2 and PHP 4.3.10 on my Windows XP computer. I followed the relevant installation tutorials provided respectively by Apache and PHP documentation. I enabled the mbstring extension, and when I load a PHP page with php_info() I get a section on mbstring in it, so the extension is indeed loaded. However, when I try to install the mailparse extension using PEAR I get the following: C:\Tools\php4>pear install mailparse downloading mailparse-2.1.1.tgz ... Starting to download mailparse-2.1.1.tgz (35,883 bytes) ..........done: 35,883 bytes 'mbstring' PHP extension is not installed mailparse: Dependencies failed

mbstring is a PHP extension. It's not a PEAR class. The installation depends on how you installed php. Read the installation instructions: www.php.net/mbstring#mbstring.installation