Question

This is what I do in php:

$dbhandler = new PDO('mysql:host='.domain.':'.port.';dbname='.dbName.';',db_user,db_password);        

$stmt = $dbhandler->prepare("INSERT INTO ".myTable.
" (value) VALUES (:value)");
$stmt->bindValue(':value', "試打中文");

$stmt->execute();

This is what I get via phpMyAdmin:

試打中文

But I can manually insert chinese in phpMyAdmin, and it shows to monster char…
What did I do wrong? (The Collation of table field is : utf8_unicode_ci).

Thank you.

Answer 1

Change your code to:

$dbhandler = new PDO('mysql:host='.domain.':'.port.';dbname='.dbName.';',db_user,db_password, array(
  PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'
));