// @todo - create function for sanitization of strings for display in 1.8
// encode <,>,&, quotes and characters above 127
-$display_query = mb_convert_encoding($query, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
+if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
+ $display_query = mb_convert_encoding($query, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
+} else {
+ // if no mbstring extension, we just strip characters
+ $display_query = preg_replace("/[^\x01-\x7F]/", "", $query);
+}
$display_query = htmlspecialchars($display_query, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
// check that we have an actual query
// @todo - create function for sanitization of strings for display in 1.8
// encode <,>,&, quotes and characters above 127
-$display_query = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
+if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
+ $display_query = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
+} else {
+ // if no mbstring extension, we just strip characters
+ $display_query = preg_replace("/[^\x01-\x7F]/", "", $value);
+}
$display_query = htmlspecialchars($display_query, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);