PHP + SQL Server - How to set charset for connection?

Question

I\'m trying to store some data in a SQL Server database through php.

Problem is that special chars aren\'t converted properly. My app\'s charset is iso-8859-1 and th

Answer 1

Just adding ini_set('mssql.charset', 'UTF-8'); didn't help me in my case. I had to specify the UTF-8 character set on the column:

$age = 30;  
$name = utf8_encode("Joe");    

$select = sqlsrv_query($conn, "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Age = ? AND Name = ?",
    array(array($age), array($name, SQLSRV_PARAM_IN, SQLSRV_PHPTYPE_STRING('UTF-8')));