Store Arabic text in mysql database using php

Question

I am trying to store some Arabic data in a mysql database I have set the html document charset to be \'utf8\'

Answer 1

You may try this. It should work

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if(!$conn){
    die("could not connect: ".mysqli_connect_error());
}else{
    mysqli_query("SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database = 'utf8', character_set_server = 'utf8'", $conn);
}
?>