I want to insert Arabic characters to database using pdo with php, but I got these characters in database
الجامع ا
and when I use
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
the result was
??????????
I make the collection of the columns in phpMyadmin
utf8mb4_unicode_ci
and this
utf_unicode_ci
but I still have the same error.
And I tried to make the connection like this: (totti,totti is not my really username and password)
parent::__construct('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=ams-competation;charset=utf8"', 'totti', 'totti');
but still I get the same error
And I also tried like this:
parent::__construct('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=ams-competation;charset=utf8', 'totti', 'totti'
,array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));
and doesn't work :(
and after submitting the form and before inserting to database i echo the values and i got arabic characters , that means my problems is in database , but echo works just without using meta
and when i tried to insert arabic characters from phpmyadmin IT WORKS
i am using
phpmyadmin in XAMPP 1.7.4
php 5.5.3
finally i found the solution and it is:
make the collection of the columns utf8_unicode_ci
put <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in the header
Try setting the connection to utf-8 when making connection to the database.
If you're following rules and best practices:
Set the constants first in your config file like this:
define('DB_SERVER', 'your_hostname');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'your_username');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your_password');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'UTF-8');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'your_dbname');
define('PDO_DSN', 'mysql:host=' . DB_SERVER . ';dbname=' . DB_DATABASE . ';charset=' . DB_CHARSET);
Then set your connection like this:
$_dbhandler = new PDO(PDO_DSN, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD,array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES UTF8"));
Quick and dirty
Set your connection like this:
$dbhandler = new PDO('mysql:host=your_hostname;dbname=your_dbname;charset=UTF-8', $user, $pass);
Your problem is most likely not in how you access the database. The characters you see are HTML encoded, so it looks like you're using something like htmlentities() on your data before writing it to the DB.
define('DB_CHARSET', 'UTF-8'); not working
use define('DB_CHARSET', 'UTF8'); instead
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I have a database field with utf8_unicode_ci encoding in MySQL. This arrangements done by the previous developer and it's store arabic language data in some special character format like this:
رنا كلبونه
I have set the headers to <meta http-equiv="Content-type" value="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> but its not showing the arabic language characters when I try to fetch the values from the database. It's only showing these special characters instead of the language.
If you are using MySQL then use below after DB connection
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
If you are using MySQLi then use below after DB connection
mysqli_set_charset($connection,"utf8");
If you are using class and object of mysqli then use below
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "", "test");
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8");
Hope this will help !
I am trying to display chinese characters that I have saved in MySQL database, which is saved under utf8_unicode_ci type. I have seen several solutions on the web, but nothing works.
Below is my connection file:
$conn = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$conn);
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8 ");
mysql_select_db("database");
Below is my query:
mysql_query("SET character_set_results=utf8", $conn);
$sql = mysql_query("select * from webdata",$conn);
But it still shows ????. Any ideas?
How to resolve...
When I had a similar issue I firstly displayed the encoding of my text in php using
echo mb_detect_encoding ( $text );
It shows the encoding of the text coming from my query. This showed me that I was getting ASCII from mysql_query when Chinese or Russian characters were in my database.
The change I made was with the following addition after the mysql_connect
mysql_set_charset('UTF8');
My database is utf8_unicode_ci collation and I can see chinese characters.
So, if mb_detect_encoding is now giving you UTF8 for your text then you would be able to show chinese characters.
The next step is to make sure what you pass to the browser has the correct header...
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
Put the above at the top of your code in php to make sure the browser is expecting your encoding.
Now that should the question, however ideally you should be using PDO or mysqli rather than mysql_connect method. In this case the equivalent procedural style commands are..
$link = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'my_user', 'my_password', 'test');
mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8");
Where $link is the equivalent to your connection to the database.
where it show "???", when you print the output to HTML ?
if so, try to add to <head> element the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
hope it helped a bit.
EDIT
it seems that you need to declare UTF8 on:
character_set_results = 'utf8',
character_set_client = 'utf8',
character_set_connection = 'utf8',
character_set_database = 'utf8',
character_set_server = 'utf8'"
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PHP UTF8 not displaying chinese characters properly
That should be all you need. Both for Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters
1. Make sure your table is set to COLLATION utf8_general_ci
2. $con = new mysqli("localhost",$username,$password,$database) or die("Error " . mysqli_error($con)); $con->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
3. <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
I have problem with German characters on my web site,
in html/php part of website i have this code to set utf-8:
<meta charset="utf-8">
in mysql, i have this code to set utf-8
SET CHARSET 'utf8';
Here is some word on German: Gemäß
Here is how that word looks in mysql table:
Gemäß
Here is how that word is shown on the site: Gemäß
What is a problem? Thanks.
I was using this code to get title:
$title = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['title']));
I just override that to
$title = $_POST['title'];
At first, make sure, that you have UTF-8 characters in your database.
After that, try using SET NAMES 'UTF8' after connecting to MySQL:
$con=mysqli_connect("host", "user", "pw", "db");
if (!$con)
{
die('Failed to connect to mySQL: ' .mysqli_connect_errno());
}
mysqli_query($con, "SET NAMES 'UTF8'") or die("ERROR: ". mysqli_error($con));
As the manual says:
SET NAMES indicates what character set the client will use to send SQL
statements to the server... It also specifies the character set that the server should
use for sending results back to the client.
Try SET NAMES 'utf8' or SET NAMES 'utf-8'. Some of these works fine for portuguese, probably for german too. I just can't remember which one is correct, but if it is not, an error will be produced.
you should make sure that the CONNECTION is also utf-8.
with mysqli this is done with something like this:
$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db_name);
$connection->set_charset("utf8");
Now if somehow you ended up with wrong characters in the database there is a way to make it right:
in a PHP script, retrieve the information as you do now, i.e without setting the connection. This way the mistake will be inverted and corrected and in your php file you will have the characters in the correct utf-8 format.
in a PHP script, write back the information with setting the connection to utf-8
at this point you should see the character correct in your database
now change all your read/write functions of your site to use the utf-8 from now on
in HTML5 use
<meta charset="utf-8">
in HTML 4.0.1 use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
the results are html entity encoded as if they were processed by htmlentities(), I wonder if your variables are ibserted as received from the form or are being processed by say a wysiwg editor for instance?
Anyway, these should print fine on an html template but an html_entity_decode() should do it to.
Hope this helps
Set the data type in your database to use UTF-8 as well, this should solve the problem.
I had the same problem. which I solved by using:
if you have already created your table, you need the modify the character set as:
alter table <table name> convert to character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci.
your tables character set is set to latin_swedish by default by MySQL.
also, you might face some problems while retrieving the data and displaying it to you page.For that include: mysql_set_charset('utf8') just below the line where you have connected your database.
eg:
mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('my db');
mysql_set_charset('utf8');
You will need to do this for php 5.x
$yourNiceLookingString =
htmlspecialchars ($YourStringFromDB, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'ISO-8859-1');
and for php 4.x
$yourNiceLookingString = htmlspecialchars($YourStringFromDB);
I have a field, $name (varchar(128)) in which there's a value "Pølse Mand".
Now I want it to print something special whenever the value is "Pølse Mand"
<?php
if ($name=="Pølse Mand") { echo "123";};
?>
But for some reason this doesn't work. I also have another value named "Text box" and it works fine when I do the same with that, so it must be the "ø" that messes things up.
I assume my "ø" in the php file is somehow different from the ø in the value, even though I've tried copying it directly letter for letter in phpmyadmin.
The MySQL connection collation is utf8_unicode_ci and the collation in the table is latin1_swedish_ci. I have tried: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8_unicode_ci"/> and with the swedish one, but it just doesn't work.
Are you using MySql or MySqli?
For MySQL use this code before the request:
mysql_set_charset ( 'latin7' );
or:
mysql_set_charset ( 'utf8' );
And for MySQLi:
$mysqli -> set_charset ( 'latin7' ); //Change $mysqli to your variable name
or:
$mysqli -> set_charset ( 'utf8' );
As for the <meta> tag, use:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
or:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-13"/>
Try both options and find which works best for you.
You're using UTF-8 on the client side so must tell MySQL that you use UTF-8. This is done by the MySQL command SET NAMES 'utf8' which must be send as the first query on opening a connection. Depending on your installation and on the MySQL client library you use in the PHP script this can be done automatically on each connect.
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "password", "db");
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8");
//
$mysql_set_charset("utf8");
try to change table encoding to utf8 and after mysql connection run query: set names utf8
Problem, simple and annoying.
Im just trying to print a list of names, collected from my mysql database.
The PHP-files are saved in utf8, the database and tables are set to use utf8. Still 'å,ä,ö', for example, outputs as �. Can't believe I'm still having this issue.
Of course, Latin1 solves the problem. The thing is that I have to use utf8 since I'm doing some json_encode for sending the data to an ajax-script.
Any idea what on earth could be wrong?
Should I convert the data to utf8 before returning it perhaps? Seems weird I should have to..
Convert utf8_general_ci to utf8_unicode_ci...
Try running SET NAMES UTF8 query after you connect to database...
function connect($server, $database, $username, $password, $charset = "UTF8"){
$link = mysql_connect($server, $database, $password);
if(!$link){
die("Unable to connect to database server.");
}
mysql_selectdb($database);
if(function_exists("mysql_set_charset")){
mysql_set_charset($charset, $link);
}else{
mysql_query("SET NAMES $charset");
}
}
Also make sure you have this (or via header()) in your HTML...
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Two things to do...
Make sure your HTML header is sending the correct charset:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Use utf_encode() when adding your names to the array. The line in your should be
$guests[] = array_map('utf8_encode', $row);