Question

Hope here are some with more knowledge about Zend Framework than me, I’ve been trying to search for the answer but I’m not able to fin anything anywhere.

Problem:

When adding the content of a Zend_Form to the database with the use of Zend_Db the characters æ ø å is replaced by øæå

System

• WampServer 2.0i
  • Apache 2.2.11
  • MySQL 5.1.36
  • PHP 5.3.0
• Zend Framework 1.10.0

Modifications done to make it work (which it does not)

application.ini

resources.db.adapter = "pdo_mysql"
resources.db.params.host = "localhost"
resources.db.params.username = "//Brukernavn//"
resources.db.params.password = "//Passord//"
resources.db.params.dbname = "//Database//"
resources.db.params.charset = "utf8"
resources.db.params.driver_options.1002 = "SET NAMES utf8"
resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = true

To all forms I’ve added

->setAttrib('accept-charset', 'utf-8');

And in Bootstrap.php I’ve placed the following code:

$view->setEncoding('UTF-8');
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
$view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8');

The database is set to utf8_general_ci

Anyone have a tip on how to get it to work?

Soulution:

It’s a bug in PHP 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 ( http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47224
) so I choose to downgrade to 5.2.11, and all worked like a charm.

Thanks to Pekka and Greg K for pointing me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Listening to your description, the data departs from the form as UTF-8. Could it be that your database tables themselves are still latin1?