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valek
valek

Reputation: 1376

Selecting cyrillic text from the database using PDO

I have problems with selecting cyrillic text from the database. I get some undefined characters instead of letters. I've been searching the internet for the whole day but nothing.

Connection function:

protected function pdo_connect(){
    $instance = new PDO('mysql:dbname='.self::SERVER_DB_DATABASE.';host='.self::SERVER_DB_HOST.';charset=utf8', self::SERVER_DB_USER, self::SERVER_DB_PASS);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND, 'SET NAMES utf8');
    return $instance;
}

And selecting the text from the database:

$temp=array();
$stmt=$this->db->query("SELECT * FROM table");
$result=$stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
for($i=0; $i < count($result); $i++){ 
    $temp[$result[$i]['text_index']]['en']=$result[$i]['en'];
    $temp[$result[$i]['text_index']]['sr_lat']=$result[$i]['sr_lat'];
    $temp[$result[$i]['text_index']]['sr_cyr']=$result[$i]['sr_cyr'];
}
return $temp;

And when I select the data from the database I get something like this: enter image description here As you can see, the cyrillic text isn't displayed properly but it's properly displayed in the database: enter image description here

And to mention that I have headers set:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

So what is the problem here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1307

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 137

Try correct your connection code to:

protected function pdo_connect(){
    $instance = new PDO('mysql:dbname='.self::SERVER_DB_DATABASE.';host='.self::SERVER_DB_HOST.';charset=utf8', self::SERVER_DB_USER, self::SERVER_DB_PASS);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
    $instance->setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND, 'SET NAMES utf8; SET CHARACTER SET utf8; SET SESSION collation_connection = utf8_general_ci;');
    return $instance;
}

Upvotes: 1

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