Question

Here’s my data from firebug

action=saveOrder&name=Aprova%C3%A7%C3%A3o+dos

On the server side I am trying to save it to database, the name column has collation – utf8_general_ci

Here’s my php script
1.

 $name= htmlentities(str_replace("+", " ", rawurldecode($_POST["name"])));

I also tried
2.

 $name= html_entity_decode(str_replace("+", " ", rawurldecode($_POST["name"])));

If you see this link
http://writecodeonline.com/php/
The 2. piece work there, but when I save it in database it’s not saved properly
with the last code piece the value that gets saved is Aprovação dos and with case 1.
it saves this Aprovação dos

The value that should get saved in database is Aprovação dos

function saveorders()
{
  var params={};
  params.action='saveOrder';
  params.name=$("#cliente_nome").val();
  $.post('saveorders.php',params,function(data)
  {
    alert(data);
  });
}

PHP Code

 <?php

  mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
  include_once ("clase.php");// Database connection file
  session_start();
  $name=html_entity_decode(str_replace("+", " ", rawurldecode($_POST["name"])));
  Policy::saveOrders($name);

  ?>

Any help appreciated

Answer 1

Here are the steps I took to resolve this

1. Set the collation of database table to utf8_general_ci
2. The PHP Page which is receiving the data, set its header to mb_internal_encoding(“UTF-8”); and iconv_set_encoding(“internal_encoding”, “UTF-8”);
   [This one I took from the above answers, I am not sure which one to keep and which one to remove, I kept both as it worked for me]
   3.while sending data using jquery use escape, so this becomes

    params.name=$("#cliente_nome").val(); 

   this

     params.name=escape($("#cliente_nome").val()); 

3. The server page should use rawurlencode method
   e.g

 <?php

  mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
  iconv_set_encoding("internal_encoding", "UTF-8");
  include_once ("clase.php");// Database connection file
  session_start();
  $name=str_replace("+", " ", rawurldecode($_POST["name"]));
  Policy::saveOrders($name);

  ?>