Comments on: UTF8, PHP and MySQL

By: John D

John D — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:03:45 +0000

Nice post, some real gems in here. Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent of PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8")?

By: StevenF

StevenF — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:11:32 +0000

I've been looking for this answer for a few weeks now. I tried the php header() like you pointed out and it fixed the problem.

I appreciate this concise blog!

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:23:13 +0000

Don't forget to save your files according to the charset you want to user either ;-)

It's a common mistake among beginners...

http://web-o-blog.blogspot.com/2011/04/utf-8-with-phpmysql.html

By: bassgun

bassgun — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:33:00 +0000

Hi Rob,
Today I started a new project and i had to deal with the same issue. My short solution is indeed:

$view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8');
(obviously you need to echo $this->headMeta() in your layout.phtml)

This is the only place in my code where I define utf-8 charset encoding and database saving is totally OK. And it saves me lots of typing and thus headaches ;)

greetz from Holland

By: indrek

indrek — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:12:18 +0000

Hi,

Thank you so much for this post. I have spent almost all day trying to figure out how to get correct Lithuanian characters from my MySQL database correctly showing on my php website. Finally, I only needed to add this extra line after making the connection to database:

mysql_set_charset('utf8');

Thanks again, you saved a lot of my time. ;)

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:54:49 +0000

Beware when using:
resources.db.params.charset
and
resources.db.params.driver_options.1002

When you have the first, the second is overwritten when calling _connect. That sucks and it's most likely an ugly bug, as PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND can be used for more than just setting the charset (which is my case)

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:57:55 +0000

It works like a charm, Thanks Rob, thanks everybody!

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:55:54 +0000

Thanks for this tip.

By: Zac Imboden

Zac Imboden — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:08:45 +0000

Your tip about mysql_set_charset('utf8') just transformed my workflow. None of all three of my otherwise excellent O'Reilly manuals for PHP (PHP and MySQL, PHP Cookbook, or Programming PHP) even mention this function.
I thought I was doing everything correctly but the one missing piece was that PEAR was not set up to handle UTF-8 encoding.
So simple!

By: dan

dan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:11:33 +0000

thanks I was having problems with �'s