Question

I am facing an small issue in my project When I am trying to store some German words into the MYSQL Database. When this German words contains umlauts i.e. characters ä, ö, ß, ü etc., they are not stored as they are…..?

I want to store them as it is into the Database.To do so I tried to change the COLLATION to UTF8-general-ci, and others in the list using PHP myAdmin. But none of them is working for me.

Am I in the right way or I have to do something else.

Please suggest some help.

Thanks In Advance……

Answer 1

years ago I’ve faced the same problem. I’ve solved it by implicit setting NAMES option for mysql. In my code it looks like this:

//inside AbstractMapper class

public function __construct($modelClass, $dbTable) {
$this->setDbTable($dbTable);
$stmt = new Zend_Db_Statement_Pdo($this->getDbTable()->getAdapter(), 'set names utf8');
$stmt->execute();
$this->_model_class = $modelClass;
}