How to specify collation with PDO without SET NAMES?

Question

We can explicitly set the char set to utf8 when initializing PDO, just add \"charset=utf8\" to the dsn string. But how does one explicitly specify the collation

Answer 1

Use this ---Done----

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=vocabulary;charset=utf-8', "root", "", array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));

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