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

I suggest always connecting to a database via PDO.

Below is a sample code;

 self::$persistent,
                \PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
                \PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
                \PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES => true,
                \PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES 'utf8'"
            ));
        } catch (PDOException $e) {
            echo "Connection Error: " . $e->getMessage();
        }
    }

    public static function getInstance() {
        if (!self::$instance) {
            new connMysql();
        }

        return self::$instance;
    }

    public static function close() {
        self::$instance = null;
    }

}