wrong '.$row["column_name_here"].' encoding - php

Question

I'm a bit newbi in PHP. I implemented http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/03/loading-more-results-from-database solution in my new website: http://do2go.pl/do2go-nowa/
its working well - except encoding. My DB and all things are in UTF8. When fetch taking data from DB UTF8 seems not working.
Heres configuration and fetch code:
Config:
<?php
$db_username = 'kamio2_do2gonowa';
$db_password = 'JeremiasZ1!';
$db_name = 'kamio2_do2gonowa';
$db_host = 'localhost';
$item_per_page = 2;
mysqli_query ("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); mysqli_set_charset('utf8');
$connecDB = mysqli_connect($db_host, $db_username, $db_password,$db_name) or die('could not connect to database');
?>
And fetch:
<?php
include("config.inc.php"); //include config file
//sanitize post value
$page_number = filter_var($_POST["page"], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT, FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH);
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
//throw HTTP error if page number is not valid
if(!is_numeric($page_number)){
header('HTTP/1.1 500 Invalid page number!');
exit();
}
//get current starting point of records
$position = ($page_number * $item_per_page);
//Limit our results within a specified range.
$results = mysqli_query($connecDB, "SELECT id,introtext FROM w7wst_content ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT $position, $item_per_page");
//output results from database
echo '<ul class="page_result">';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
echo '<li id="item_'.$row["id"].'"><span class="page_message">'.$row["introtext"].'</span></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
?>
I added mysql_query ("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); mysql_set_charset('utf8'); but this does nothing. Still getting � symbols and ? instead of " All next 3 was changed directly in DB tables for html symbols which isn't a solution.
Any help appreciated! :)

Answer 1

(To close the question, since this was the solution to the OP's problem)
Add $connecDB->set_charset("utf8"); just before $results = mysqli_query($connecDB...

Answer 2

You are using mysql and mysqli in one script. Only use mysqli as mysql has been deprecated. That said try this:
mysqli_character_set_name($connectDB);
mysqli_set_char_set($connectDB, 'UTF8');
Set these after your connection script.

Answer 3

Did you check if they are properly stored in the table? Try typing this in your database(not in PHP):
SELECT * FROM w7wst_content;
and see if it's displaying properly. Alternatively you can check table contents with some tool like phpmyadmin. If it's not you have to set collation to something like utf8_general_ci.
EDIT: Also, how about setting the charset AFTER connecting to the database, hm? :)