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I have a data in my mysql database's table which is Biñan. However, when I try to retrieve it using php, it showed as Bi�an in my dropdown list.
Here is my sample code:
<?php
$query = "SELECT * from municipality";
$res = mysqli_query($conn,$query);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($res))
{
echo "<option value='".$row['m_id']."'>".$row['m_name']."</option>";
}
?>
But when I manually echo/insert the character ñ in php/mysql it displayed as is. I have also set the charset to UTF-8.
PROBLEM SOLVED!: I just have to replace the ñ with ñ in my database's table. So it shows ñ in my website.
add this in your head html file.
in a balise:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
Try to:
ALTER DATABASE <databasename> CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE municipality CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
otherwise it's in the database.
do this in your database.
ALTER TABLE municipality COLLATE utf8_general_ci
or
ALTER TABLE municipality CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;
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I'm trying to store an Arabic text to the table, I searched a lot but I didn't find a solution that worked for me, so this is what I got:
$en = "OK";
$ar = "حسناً";
$link->query("INSERT INTO words (en,ar) VALUES ($en,$ar)");
The problem is when I insert it, the Arabic text looks like Øسناً, my table's collation and MySQL's are utf8_general_ci, so is my database's, I also have mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');, but it doesn't work.
I recently had the same issues myself.
Here's a few pointers:
ALL attributes must be set to ut8 (collation is NOT the same as charset)
Save the document as UTF-8 (If you're using Notepad++, it's Format -> Convert to UFT-8)
The header in both PHP and HTML should be set to UTF-8 (HTML: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> and PHP: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
Upon connecting to the databse, set the charset ti UTF-8 there as well, like this: $link->set_charset("utf8"); (directly after connecting)
Also make sure your database and tables are set to UTF-8, you can do that like this:
ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Remember that EVERYTHING needs to be set to UFT-8 charcode, or else it'll insert stuff like "Øسناً". Hope this helped!
First thing is the database, table, and column. See if utf8 is set:
utf8_general_ci or utf8_unicode_ci
Also, the connection collation: utf8_general_ci
In PHP, after I connect with mysqli, I issue this:
$conn->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
And the web page output always jams in:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Here is a solution that worked for me:
when you create the database choose the collation for: utf8_unicode_ci
when you connect to the database from php use the following character set:
$dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=record;charset=utf8";
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I have Arabic text stored in mysql like this format
شقق جديده غبر مسكونه 220 متر..
.150متر..طبربور ..ااسكانات قموم
والنجار للاستÙسار
it is in this format because I didn't use the below before inserting data into database from HTML textboxes:
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');
My question now, how to convert the text into MySQL columns to readable text like this:
شقق جديده غبر مسكونه 220 متر ..150متر..طبربور ..ااسكانات قموم والنجار للاستفسار
I tried the below for one column cell to check, but it didn't work:
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');
$sql = 'SELECT content FROM messages WHERE id=500';
$qry = mysql_query($sql);
$result =mysql_fetch_object($qry);
$text= $result->content;
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');
$sql ='UPDATE messages SET content= "'.$text.'" where id=500';
mysql_query($sql);
Note: if I use the below
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');
before I insert data into database from HTML textarea, then it works fine for store and read, but I need to convert the already entered data into tables.
Thanks.
The solution in brief can be done in 3 simple steps:
A. Change the Database collation to utf8 via the command below:
ALTER DATABASE <db_name> CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
already the table cells I want to change have collation of utf8_general_ci
B. Implement this query to change the content:
update messages set content=CONVERT(BINARY CONVERT(content USING latin1) USING utf8);
C. add the below before you connect to the DB:
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8');
And you are done!!! Thanks for all
Use the ALTER DATABASE and ALTER TABLE commands.
ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Source.
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I'm trying to insert a Unicode message in my database.
+9195******** पर मुझे फोन
Its inserting like the below line.
+9195******** पर मà¥à¤à¥‡ फोन
Can anybody tell me how to overcome this issue ?
You need to change the table collation to UTF8
alter table *table_name* CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
Consider if this is the query,
$test = "...SQL Query...";
$result = mysql_query($test);
Just add this alone in above of $test
$result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
Your final code should be,
$result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
$test = "...SQL Query...";
$result = mysql_query($test);
Also, add this line at the top,
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
I'm trying to build a shopping cart using PHP & MySQL.
my db in MySQL is utf8 and my table in the db is utf8,
How can I use Hebrew characters?
I was able to solve this by doing the following:
the db collation has to be utf8_general_ci
the collation of the table with hebrew has to be utf8_general_ci
in your php connection script put header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
in xhtml head tag put <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
after selecting the db in the connection script put mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
After a lot of work I found a solution that always works..:
without SET_NAMES.
In the conn.inc.php file, after you selected a database and connected to it, do this:
if(!mysqli_set_charset($conn, 'utf8')) {
echo 'the connection is not in utf8';
exit();
}
...and in the html always use charset utf-8;
That solved it for me. No need to use set_names(), which is ok but it annoyed the hell out of me.
You can use the PDO in your code like this:
$db = new PDO($config['DSN'], $config['dbUserName'], $config['dbPassword']);
$db->exec("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
Make sure you include the single quotation marks around the 'utf8'.
If it's an encoding problem (and it sounds like it is), this query will help:
SET NAMES utf8
Execute this query (e.g. mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8")) right after you connect and before you move any data.
More info
$conn->set_charset("utf8"); Use this for your dbconnect
Where are the question marks showing up? It may be an encoding problem somewhere other than in the data base.
To store non-ASCII characters in a database column, you need to define that column with a specific character set. You can specify a character set at 3 levels: database, table, and column. For example:
CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8
CREATE TABLE tbl_name (...) CHARACTER SET utf8
CREATE TABLE tbl_name (col_name CHAR(80) CHARACTER SET utf8, ...)
http://www.herongyang.com/PHP/Non-ASCII-MySQL-Store-Non-ASCII-Character-in-Database.html
In my case I created the DB from a dump, and this command solve it:
ALTER DATABASE <database_name> CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8') ..... Put this in Php
I have to store hindi text in a MySQL database, fetch it using a PHP script and display it on a webpage. I did the following:
I created a database and set its encoding to UTF-8 and also the collation to utf8_bin.
I added a varchar field in the table and set it to accept UTF-8 text in the charset property.
Then I set about adding data to it. Here I had to copy data from an existing site.
The hindi text looks like this: सूर्योदय:05:30
I directly copied this text into my database and used the PHP code echo(utf8_encode($string)) to display the data. Upon doing so the browser showed me "??????".
When I inserted the UTF equivalent of the text by going to "view source" in the browser, however, सूर्योदय translates into सूर्योदय.
If I enter and store सूर्योदय in the database, it converts perfectly.
So what I want to know is how I can directly store सूर्योदय into my database and fetch it and display it in my webpage using PHP.
Also, can anyone help me understand if there's a script which when I type in सूर्योदय, gives me सूर्योदय?
Solution Found
I wrote the following sample script which worked for me. Hope it helps someone else too
<html>
<head>
<title>Hindi</title></head>
<body>
<?php
include("connection.php"); //simple connection setting
$result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8"); //the main trick
$cmd = "select * from hindi";
$result = mysql_query($cmd);
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo ($myrow[0]);
}
?>
</body>
</html>
The dump for my database storing hindi utf strings is
CREATE TABLE `hindi` (
`data` varchar(1000) character set utf8 collate utf8_bin default NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `hindi` VALUES ('सूर्योदय');
Now my question is, how did it work without specifying "META" or header info?
Thanks!
Did you set proper charset in the HTML Head section?
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
or you can set content type in your php script using -
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
There are already some discussions here on StackOverflow - please have a look
How to make MySQL handle UTF-8 properly
setting utf8 with mysql through php
PHP/MySQL with encoding problems
So what i want to know is how can i
directly store सूर्योदय into my
database and fetch it and display in
my webpage using PHP.
I am not sure what you mean by "directly storing in the database" .. did you mean entering data using PhpMyAdmin or any other similar tool? If yes, I have tried using PhpMyAdmin to input unicode data, so it has worked fine for me - You could try inputting data using phpmyadmin and retrieve it using a php script to confirm. If you need to submit data via a Php script just set the NAMES and CHARACTER SET when you create mysql connection, before execute insert queries, and when you select data. Have a look at the above posts to find the syntax. Hope it helps.
** UPDATE **
Just fixed some typos etc
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_query('SET character_set_results=utf8');
mysql_query('SET names=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_client=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_connection=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_results=utf8');
mysql_query('SET collation_connection=utf8_general_ci');
mysql_select_db('onlinetest',$con);
$nith = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `TAMIL` (
`data` varchar(1000) character set utf8 collate utf8_bin default NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1";
if (!mysql_query($nith,$con))
{
die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
}
$nithi = "INSERT INTO `TAMIL` VALUES ('இந்தியா நாட்டின் பக்கங்கள்')";
if (!mysql_query($nithi,$con))
{
die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
}
$result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");//the main trick
$cmd = "select * from TAMIL";
$result = mysql_query($cmd);
while($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo ($myrow[0]);
}
?>
</body>
</html>
For those who are looking for PHP ( >5.3.5 ) PDO statement, we can set charset as per below:
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb;charset=utf8', 'username', 'password');
CREATE DATABASE hindi_test
CHARACTER SET utf8
COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
USE hindi_test;
CREATE TABLE `hindi` (`data` varchar(200) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;
INSERT INTO `hindi` (`data`) VALUES('कंप्यूटर');
For Those who are facing difficulty just got to php admin and change collation to utf8_general_ci
Select Table go to Operations>> table options>> collations should be there