Inserting UTF-8 encoded string into UTF-8 encoded mysql table fails with “Incorrect string value”

Question

Inserting UTF-8 encoded string into UTF-8 encoded table gives incorrect string value.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect str

Answer 1

In your PDO connecton, set the charset.

new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=the_db;charset=utf8mb4', $user, $password);