How to pass special characters through php from a mssql database - php

Question

I have this code is working fine my application gets the data with json and is all fine but when I insert special characters like ñ which I need to get I can't have been told that I should use the utf8_encode but I just don't know how to apply it here since.
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/ConnectionInfo.php');
//Set up our connection
$connectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
$connectionInfo->GetConnection();
if (!$connectionInfo->conn)
{
//Connection failed
echo 'No Connection';
}
else
{
if (isset($_POST['mod']) && isset($_POST['lec']) && isset($_POST['clase']))
{
$mod = $_POST['mod'];
$lec = $_POST['lec'];
$clase = $_POST['clase'];
//Create query to retrieve all contacts
$query = 'SELECT TituloEjercicio,PreguntaEjercicio,Opcion1Ejercicio,Opcion2Ejercicio,Opcion3Ejercicio,Opcion4Ejercicio,EstaCorrectaEjercicio FROM ejercicios WHERE QueModulo = ? and QueLeccion = ? and Queclase = ?';
$params = array($mod,$lec,$clase);
$stmt = sqlsrv_query($connectionInfo->conn, $query,$params);
if (!$stmt)
{
//Query failed
echo 'Query failed';
}
else
{
$contacts = array(); //Create an array to hold all of the contacts
//Query successful, begin putting each contact into an array of contacts
while ($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmt,SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) //While there are still contacts
{
//Create an associative array to hold the current contact
//the names must match exactly the property names in the contact class in our C# code.
$contact = array("lbl_variable_cuestionario_titulo" => $row['TituloEjercicio'],
"lbl_variable_pregunta" => $row['PreguntaEjercicio'],
"opcion1" => $row['Opcion1Ejercicio'],
"opcion2" => $row['Opcion2Ejercicio'],
"opcion3" => $row['Opcion3Ejercicio'],
"opcion4" => $row['Opcion4Ejercicio'],
"EstaCorrecta" => $row['EstaCorrectaEjercicio']
);
//Add the contact to the contacts array
array_push($contacts, $contact);
}
//Echo out the contacts array in JSON format
echo json_encode($contacts);
sqlsrv_close($connectionInfo->conn);
}
}
sqlsrv_close($connectionInfo->conn);
}
sqlsrv_close($connectionInfo->conn);
?>

Answer 1

If your issue lies with pushing non-latin characters to MySQL then you might just have to configure your database to use UTF8. There are good tutorials online that show you how to do that.