PHP Characters

[Jackd]

Ive got a table setup in MySQL that will hold some textdata one of the columns is setup as LONGTEXT. And the collation set to utf8_unicode. Im trying to insert characters such as the ones on the screenshot below, it displays fine in phpmyadmin but on a webpage where it pulls the text from the db the characters are displayed as question marks.

The screenshot first is what it shows as in phpmyadmin which is correct, the second screenshot is the one from my page which is incorrect, and the third screenshot is the original

P.S. Excuse the random piece of text, i just picked it because it had lots of random characters in

Thanks
Jack Dunn

[localzuk]

Are you using UTF8 on your php page?

[Jackd]

I dont know, whats that mean, and how do i do it?

Jack

[localzuk]

You'd have to send a header for the php document such as

header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

But obviously catered to your particular needs in terms of the content type.

Note, header function calls have to be the first lines in your php code, so straight after the < ?php call.

[Jackd]

Nope, with that it still doesnt seem to work still displaying the same as before

Jack

[localzuk]

If you try and export to a text file, what do you get displayed?

[Jackd]

If you try and export to a text file, what do you get displayed?

Im sorry, but what do you mean by that, in phpmyadmin? How would i go around doing that?

Ive tried exporting the table to Excel and it displays fine in there, and ive also exported it to standard SQL and the characters display fine in notepad

Jack

[localzuk]

No, instead of trying to output to a web page, can you isolate the calls in php to mysql and get it to output to a text file instead of displaying in an html page.

ie. http://www.tizag.com/phpT/filewrite.php

[Jona]

This is more of a work around than a solution but you could encode it to base64 http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php and then decode it when you pull it out of the database http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

[Jackd]

No, instead of trying to output to a web page, can you isolate the calls in php to mysql and get it to output to a text file instead of displaying in an html page.

ie. http://www.tizag.com/phpT/filewrite.php

Done that and its still ?'s, ive attached the outputted file below

This is more of a work around than a solution but you could encode it to base64 http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php and then decode it when you pull it out of the database http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

I'll have a look at this now and get back with the results shortly

[Jackd]

Thanks Jona, base64 encoding and decoding works fine!

Jack