Question

I have a php file that inserts data to a mysql db using pdo. When I try to insert the word référencé in a field in one of my table, it is showing in mysql like référencé
I do not get it as I specified a little everywhere the charset as utf-8. See below.

1. my table is set to innodb utf-8
2. my field is set to utf8_general_ci
3. at the top of my php script i put
   a. header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
   b. mysql_set_charset('utf8');
   c. mysql_query("SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database = 'utf8', character_set_server = 'utf8'");

Here below my pdo connexion function:

function connexion($host, $user, $pass, $db){
    $db_host = $host;  
    $db_user = $user;  
    $db_password = $pass;  
    $db_database = $db;               
    return $connexion = new PDO("mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_database", $db_user, $db_password);
}

Hope someone can help me understand. Thank you in advance. Cheers. Marc

Answer 1

Well, apparently you’re not setting the connection encoding for your PDO connection. Do it like so:

return new PDO("mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_database",
               $db_user,
               $db_password,
               array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'));

See http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.connection.php.