How can I store the '€' symbol in MySQL using PHP? [duplicate]

Answer 1

"Working with UTF-8 on the Web" section on this page gives a good rundown: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/unicode.html

Answer 2

You can convert it to the HTML code of €

Answer 3

Make sure your script file, the file that contains the line

$currency = '€';

is encoded UTF-8. You should have an option to that effect in your editor's or IDE's "Save as" dialog.

Then make sure your connection is UTF-8 encoded as well - it is ISO-8859-1 by default.

After connecting to the database, for mySQL before 5.0.7:

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

For mySQL 5.0.7 and newer:

mysql_set_charset("utf8");