Comments on: The Proper Way To Use UTF-8 (PHP/MySQL)

By: DR

DR — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:14:31 +0000

Good to know. I realized it worked without the collation, but included it for safe measure. Thanks.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:47:05 +0000

Apologies for getting back to you so late. I've been on a national tour for the past 16 days. Here is a code snippet from a DB class I frequently use (the code below is getting garbled a bit):

public function read($query) { 
$this->mysqliObj_r->query('SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8''); 
$this->mysqliObj_r->query('SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci''); 
if(!$resultObj = $this->mysqliObj_r->query($query)) { 
$error = 'Query Error: '.$this->mysqliObj_r->error."n".'SQL: '.$query; 
echo $error.'
'; 
} 
return $resultObj; 
}

The mysliObj is an internal construct of my class. For more information, check out PHP's docs on mysqli.

By: Ehab

Ehab — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:42:19 +0000

Could you please show a full php code for using
mysqliObj->query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'");
mysqliObj->query("SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'");
and passing date from browser to mysql.

I am just learning this stuff and need to use multilingual data on a website wih mysql but after a couple days of research I can not seem to get it working. I could not find any help on msqliObj-> eiher.

Thanks, this would be very appreciated.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:25 +0000

Good to know. I realized it worked without the collation, but included it for safe measure. Thanks.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:09:46 +0000

The collation is not needed btw, thats just for sorting

By: Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:49 +0000

You are my hero. I have been struggling with this for years. I have noticed that phpMyAdmin manages to display the data correctly