intl extension is required

Hi,

I recetnly updated my application from laravel 10 to 11. After updating my composer files I started getting this error message on the filament admin panel:

The "intl" PHP extension is required to use the [format] method.

The "intl" PHP extension is required to use the [format] method.

Why is this happening after the update? And how do I solve this? I ran

composer require ext-intl

composer require ext-intl

, but I'm still getting the error.
I run my local development environment on docker from wsl. Do I have to include intl in my docker image?

toeknee•5/22/24, 3:17 PM

Composer won't fix a php extension for you.....

toeknee•5/22/24, 3:18 PM

Drop wsl and use Herd.

Else install the php intl extension on your wsl instance.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:30 PM

I installed the intl package in my container and I'm still getting the same error

Ttoeknee Drop wsl and use Herd. Else install the php intl extension on your wsl instance...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:31 PM

sorry, didn't see you there

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:31 PM

of course intl is installed on wsl

Dennis Koch•5/22/24, 3:31 PM

Is it enabled?

toeknee•5/22/24, 3:31 PM

Then you need to include it in your php.ini

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:33 PM

Yes, it is enabled

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:33 PM

How do I include it?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:43 PM

What else can I check?

toeknee•5/22/24, 3:46 PM

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=How+to+include+intl+in+php

LetMeGoogleThat.com

How To Include Intl In Php

For those who think it's easier to annoy you than to Google 'How to include intl in php' themselves.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:51 PM

thanks, very professional

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:51 PM

didn't even work...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 3:52 PM

also doesn't have a single instance of "include" on the 1st SERP, which is why I asked

toeknee•5/22/24, 3:57 PM

This package has been required in Filament since 2022. https://github.com/filamentphp/filament/commit/140b1faa543ffcc7dfca6d0f4f6ad952902f0955

The question you are asking is of the infrastructure / setup and is included in all pre-built development enviroments and majority of web servers.

GitHub

fix: explicitly require composer runtime api · filamentphp/filament...

Adam T•5/22/24, 4:06 PM

You may have to install intl for a specific php version. As shown in some of the answers from this SO page.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42243461/how-to-install-php-intl-extension-in-ubuntu-14-04
I am running WSL, but specifically a ubuntu app so this worked for me when I had intl issues.

Stack Overflow

How to install PHP intl extension in Ubuntu 14.04

I have a hard time to find exact method to install PHP intl extension in Ubuntu 14.04.

I tried with sudo apt-get install php5-intl but displays error Unable to locate package.

I really need this

AAdam T You may have to install intl for a specific php version. As shown in some of the...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:43 PM

Thanks! I went back through my command history and installed packages and I have installed intl for php 8.3.

Ttoeknee This package has been required in Filament since 2022. https://github.com/filame...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:45 PM

Going back to your prior comment: Doesn't the link just show that is required and thus, will be installed, when I run composer install? Or what am I missing?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:47 PM

Either way, is there a way of knowing where my admin panel is looking for the intl module (wsl, vendor or docker container)? Because I feel like I've installed it in all possible locations now and it would really help to know what it doesn't like

Jjak888 Going back to your prior comment: Doesn't the link just show that `ext-intl` is ...

toeknee•5/22/24, 5:47 PM

No because php extensions cannot be installed properly via composer it’s just a requirement

Ttoeknee No because php extensions cannot be installed properly via composer it’s just a ...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:47 PM

Thanks for clarifying.

toeknee•5/22/24, 5:47 PM

It’s in PHP it’s a PHP runtime extension.

Jjak888 Thanks! I went back through my command history and installed packages and I have...

Adam T•5/22/24, 5:51 PM

If you have multiple versions of php on your system it may be trying to run using a different php version. You may need to do something like this:

Here's another SO link: https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/272815/how-to-switch-between-php-versions-on-ubuntu-nginx
that also has switching with nginx in case you need that.

Magento Stack Exchange

How to switch between PHP versions on Ubuntu Nginx

I have PHP 7.0 and 7.2 installed.

For now, I use PHP 7.0.

How can I switch to PHP 7.2?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:56 PM

Yes, I saw that it was still defaulting to php 8.1.2, (edit: I noticed that yesterday, which is when I ran update alternatives) so I ran , now if I run I get:

jak888OP•5/22/24, 5:56 PM

The warning only appears when I have the intl extension enabled in the php.ini

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:10 PM

Is there anything else I can try?

Adam T•5/22/24, 6:18 PM

Sounds like intl is trying to get loaded in twice, I'll admit this is an area where I'm a bit foggy in as I normally deal with these when I'm debugging my own issues and then forget about it until the next time I'm setting up an environment.

So try just disabling intl in your php.ini, and see if it works?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:19 PM

It does not

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:20 PM

I feel that exact same way. My previous installation was working fine, I'm only dealing with this, because I updated to laravel 11 and had to go to php 8.3.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:22 PM

The intl warning has me puzzled as well. Whenever I look related issues up online, I find that you're supposed to uncomment it in the .ini. However, when I do, I get the warning

Adam T•5/22/24, 6:31 PM

hmm..
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32764981/php-warning-module-already-loaded-in-unknown-on-line-0
This thread is suggesting a duplicate xdebug.
Its possible that you have another package that is being duplicated? I don't think I've seen this one in my experiences.

Stack Overflow

PHP Warning: Module already loaded in Unknown on line 0

On Mac OSX Mavericks using homebrew php55 whenever I run a a php command I get the following error message (everything runs fine it's just annoying)

PHP Warning: Module 'intl' already loaded in U...

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:31 PM

I'm not too concerned as this is just a warning and everything still works as it should. makes me wonder if there's no in php...

Adam T•5/22/24, 6:32 PM

Ah! I thought it was a blocking error.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:33 PM

So to recap:
in wsl I have php8.3 and php8.3-intl as evidenced by composer working
on docker I am using php 8.3 and even installed intl.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:33 PM

None of this was necessary before updating

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:33 PM

And here's my dockerfile:

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:34 PM

before that it was only:

jak888OP•5/22/24, 6:34 PM

And it worked just fine

Adam T•5/22/24, 6:53 PM

And what is the error you're currently experiencing at this point?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 7:12 PM

When I go the admin panel I get a runtime exception:

The "intl" PHP extension is required to use the [format] method.

The "intl" PHP extension is required to use the [format] method.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 7:13 PM

This is because of some calculated columns in a table widget. If I delete them the error goes away.

jak888OP•5/22/24, 7:13 PM

(I want them, though)

Adam T•5/22/24, 7:32 PM

have you restarted your webserver since installing intl?

jak888OP•5/22/24, 8:36 PM

I have restarted apache

jak888OP•5/22/24, 8:36 PM

For nginx it tells me servcie not found

jak888OP•5/22/24, 8:41 PM

oh ffs

jak888OP•5/22/24, 8:42 PM

I ran php -v in my container and realized it was still running the old container

jak888OP•5/22/24, 8:42 PM

it derived it from the existing php8.2 image