PDO and UTF-8 special characters in PHP / MySQL?

Question

I am using MySQL and PHP 5.3 and tried this code.

$dbhost = \'localhost\';
$dbuser = \'root\';
$dbpass = \'\';
$con = mysql_connect(\"localhost\", \"root\",          


        

Answer 1

The possible way to insert Special characters using PDO, just follow the these to steps:

1) Set the Attribute to you connection class.

$this->db->setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND, "SET NAME'utf8'");

2) Now you can use htmlspecialchars while query creation and insertion to database:

$ShortDescription   = htmlspecialchars($_POST['ShortDescription'], ENT_QUOTES);
$LongDescription    = htmlspecialchars($_POST['LongDescription'],ENT_QUOTES);

And it will work fine.