it's kinda evil and gives you tons of headache.
Function Overloading Feature
Warnung
Dieses Feature ist seit PHP 7.2.0 als DEPRECATED (veraltet) markiert und wurde in PHP 8.0.0 ENTFERNT. Von der Verwendung dieses Features wird dringend abgeraten.
You might often find it difficult to get an existing PHP application to work in a given multibyte environment. This happens because most PHP applications out there are written with the standard string functions such as substr(), which are known to not properly handle multibyte-encoded strings.
mbstring supports a 'function overloading' feature which enables you to add multibyte awareness to such an application without code modification by overloading multibyte counterparts on the standard string functions. For example, mb_substr() is called instead of substr() if function overloading is enabled. This feature makes it easy to port applications that only support single-byte encodings to a multibyte environment in many cases.
To use function overloading, set
mbstring.func_overload in php.ini to a
positive value that represents a combination of bitmasks specifying
the categories of functions to be overloaded. It should be set
to 1 to overload the mail() function. 2 for string
functions, 4 for regular expression functions. For example,
if it is set to 7, mail, strings and regular expression functions will
be overloaded. The list of overloaded functions are shown below.
| value of mbstring.func_overload | original function | overloaded function |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mail() | mb_send_mail() |
| 2 | strlen() | mb_strlen() |
| 2 | strpos() | mb_strpos() |
| 2 | strrpos() | mb_strrpos() |
| 2 | substr() | mb_substr() |
| 2 | strtolower() | mb_strtolower() |
| 2 | strtoupper() | mb_strtoupper() |
| 2 | stripos() | mb_stripos() |
| 2 | strripos() | mb_strripos() |
| 2 | strstr() | mb_strstr() |
| 2 | stristr() | mb_stristr() |
| 2 | strrchr() | mb_strrchr() |
| 2 | substr_count() | mb_substr_count() |
Hinweis:
It is not recommended to use the function overloading option in the per-directory context, because it's not confirmed yet to be stable enough in a production environment and may lead to undefined behaviour.
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
Anonymous ¶
7 years ago
I took over a project with this "feature" enabled... took me a while to figure out why strings behaved non language standard. So, if you like to make grown men cry - by all means enable this deathtrap.
Grandt ¶
10 years ago
In short, only use mbstring.func_overload if you are 100% certain that nothing on your site relies on manipulating binary data in PHP.
Oliver Baltz ¶
14 years ago
In case you need to (de)activate the overloading for a specific directory, try setting an appropriate php_admin_value in your httpd.conf, e.g.
<Directory ...>
...
php_admin_value mbstring.func_overload 7
</Directory>
I'm not 100% sure if one can rely on that, but it seems to work for me.
