{"id":50407,"date":"2015-07-10T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=50407"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:06:31","slug":"joomla-3-x-troubleshooter-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-iconv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/joomla-3-x-troubleshooter-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-iconv.html","title":{"rendered":"Joomla 3.x. Troubleshooter. Fatal error: Call to undefined function iconv()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>Today you will learn how to handle the <strong>Fatal error: Call to undefined function iconv()<\/strong>, which can show up in your Joomla admin panel. In this case you will have two ways out.<\/p>\r\n<p>First, you have to contact your hosting and ask them to switch on the <strong>iconv<\/strong> module on the server.<\/p>\r\n<p>The second variant will require a few steps to be done. They are indicated below:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Enter your <strong>hosting file manager<\/strong>. Then open the following folder <strong>administrator\/components\/com_finder\/helpers\/indexer\/parser<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla_troubleshooter._Fatal_error.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>You should find <strong>html.php<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>There you need to delete or comment the following line:<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">$input = iconv(&quot;utf-8&quot;, &quot;utf-8\/\/IGNORE&quot;, $input);<\/pre>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla-troubleshooter.-Fatal-error2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla-troubleshooter.-Fatal-error2-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Joomla troubleshooter. Fatal error2\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla-troubleshooter.-Fatal-error2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla-troubleshooter.-Fatal-error2-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Joomla-troubleshooter.-Fatal-error2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Save the changes. There should be no issues now.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>You can as well check additional tutorials or contact us in case of any other issues.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"inline-banner\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/cart.php?addOffer=587\">\r\n<img src=\"\/help\/files\/banners\/inline\/Banner-1-(500-x100).jpg\" \/>\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today you will learn on how to handle the error <strong>Fatal error: Call to undefined function iconv()<\/strong> which can show up in your Joomla admin panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":50412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[724],"tags":[1910,691,895,2013,483,785,1503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82763,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50407\/revisions\/82763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}