Set character set using MySQLi

Question

I\'m fetching data in Arabic from MySQL tables with MySQLi. So I usually use this in procedural style:

mysql_query(\"SET NAMES \'utf8\'\"); 
mysql_query(\'SE         


        

Answer 1

For procedural style lovers.

// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

/* change character set to utf8 */
mysqli_set_charset($conn,"utf8");