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Hello Folks, if you need an awesome project management tool, check out dotProject; it's open source and comparable to software like Microsoft Project.

The reason I'm taking the time to post this article is because I ran into an issue installing dotProject 2.1.3 related to the php module called mbstring. It's a Multi-Byte String module for php that wasn't installed. Well, the multi-byte (mbstring) module might be difficult for folks to install so there is an alternative you can try until the next release of dotProject. (I read on the forums the next version may have code to handle this issue for windows...) But... because we made some code changes to the 2.1.3 code base, and keeping with the GNU License - we have published the modified code below.

My Windows  box, which certainly was missing the mbstring bit works now with the modified code below. Note that one mbstring dependency remains that I wasn't able to get around; it prevents the calendar from working properly, I get an error in the Calendar area but everything else seems to work fine so far. Here is the error I received (underlined):

Fatal error: Call to undefined function convert_encoding() in C:\Program Files\vtigercrm-5.1.0\apache\htdocs\vtigerCRM\dotproject\lib\PEAR\Date\Calc.php on line 1590

Code Changes are simply all *.php files with functions like mb_????? have been searched and replaced so the mb_ prefix doesn't exist; in effect removing the multi-byte dependency:

dotproject_2_1_3_JegasLLC_201004080253.zip

See related thread on dotProject Forum here

Have a good day!

--Jason

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