Doctrine2: How to set all tables to collate with UTF8

Question

I am using Doctrine with Symfony2. My config.yml file looks something like this:-

Doctrine Configuration

doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver: %data         


        

Answer 1

if you are looking for a way to have migrations be created correctly you should setup the connection

you can set the default_table_options connection option to achieve this: in symfony this is done through:

doctrine:
    dbal:
        default_table_options:
            charset: utf8
            collate: utf8_general_ci

for those looking to do it in plain doctrine this translates to doctrine connection option defaultDatabaseOptions, and is passed to the entity manager together with your database credentials etc:

[
    ...
    'driver' => ...
    'user' => ...
    ...
    'defaultDatabaseOptions' => [
         'charset' => 'utf8',
         'collate' => 'utf8_general_ci'
    ]
]