How to make PDO run SET NAMES utf8 each time I connect, In ZendFramework

Question

How to make PDO adapter run SET NAMES utf8 each time I connect, In ZendFramework. I am using an INI file to save the adapter config data. what entries should I add there?

Answer 1

You just have to execute this command before you start queries, you only have to execute it once before the queries and not for every query.

$pdo->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

Full example

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "test";
$dbname = "yourDB";

try {
    $pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$dbname", $username, $password);

    $pdo->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

    //set the PDO error mode to exception
    $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

    $sql = "SELECT name FROM nations";
    foreach ($pdo->query($sql) as $row) {
       echo "".$row['name']."";
    }


} catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}
$pdo = null;