The comment by Claude (http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php#121067) is CORRECT.
Setting the charset (it's really the encoding) like this after setting up your connection:
$connection->set_charset("utf8mb4")
FAILS to set the proper collation for the connection:
character_set_client: utf8mb4
character_set_connection: utf8mb4
character_set_database: utf8mb4
character_set_filesystem: binary
character_set_results: utf8mb4
character_set_server: utf8mb4
character_set_system: utf8
collation_connection: utf8mb4_general_ci <---- still says general
collation_database: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
collation_server: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
If you use SET NAMES, that works:
$connection->query("SET NAMES utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci");
character_set_client: utf8mb4
character_set_connection: utf8mb4
character_set_database: utf8mb4
character_set_filesystem: binary
character_set_results: utf8mb4
character_set_server: utf8mb4
character_set_system: utf8
collation_connection: utf8mb4_unicode_ci <-- now says unicode
collation_database: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
collation_server: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Please note, that I set the following variables on the server:
Set the following to be: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
character_set_client
character_set_connection
character_set_database
character_set_results
character_set_server
collation_connection
collation_server
Set:
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE or 0
skip-character-set-client-handshake = TRUE or 1
mysqli::set_charset
mysqli_set_charset
(PHP 5 >= 5.0.5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mysqli::set_charset -- mysqli_set_charset — クライアントの文字セットを設定する
説明
オブジェクト指向型
手続き型
データベースサーバーとのデータの送受信に使用する、 文字セットを設定します。
戻り値
成功した場合に true を、失敗した場合に false を返します。
エラー / 例外
mysqli のエラー報告 (MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR) が有効になっており、かつ要求された操作が失敗した場合は、警告が発生します。さらに、エラー報告のモードが MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT に設定されていた場合は、mysqli_sql_exception が代わりにスローされます。
例
例1 mysqli::set_charset() の例
オブジェクト指向型
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
printf("Initial character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());
/* 文字セットを utf8mb4 に変更します */
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8mb4");
printf("Current character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());手続き型
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$link = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'my_user', 'my_password', 'test');
printf("Initial character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link));
/* 文字セットを utf8mb4 に変更します */
mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8mb4");
printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link));上の例の出力は、 たとえば以下のようになります。
Initial character set: latin1 Current character set: utf8mb4
注意
注意:
Windows プラットフォームでこの関数を使用するには、MySQL クライアント ライブラリのバージョン 4.1.11 以降（MySQL 5.0 の場合は 5.0.6 以降） が必要です。
注意:
文字セットを変更するにはこの方法を使うことを推奨します。 mysqli_query() で (
SET NAMES utf8などとして) 設定する方法はお勧めできません。詳細は MySQL の文字セットの概念 を参照ください。
参考
- mysqli_character_set_name() - データベース接続の現在の文字コードセットを返す
- mysqli_real_escape_string() - 接続の現在の文字セットを考慮して、SQL 文で使用する文字列の特殊文字をエスケープする
- MySQL 文字セットのコンセプト
- » MySQL がサポートする文字セットの一覧
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User Contributed Notes 5 notes
Konstantin Rozinov ¶
7 years ago
Emmanuel Appiah ¶
8 years ago
So in my case, I had tried changing the collation from utf8mb4_unicode_ci for mysql and had to change it to uft8_general_ci.
Then pasted :
mysqli_set_charset( $con, 'utf8');
right before I did the SELECT command.
This is my code for reading from db :
/*
$DB_SERVER="db_server_name";
$DB_USER_READER="root";
$DB_PASS_READER="passw*rd";
$DB_NAME="db_name";
$DB_PORT="port number";
$SELECT_WHAT="`name_of_column_as_in_your_table`";
$WHICH_TBL="`table_name`";
$ON_WHAT_CONDITION="`id`='7'";
*/
$con = mysqli_connect($DB_SERVER, $DB_USER_READER, $DB_PASS_READER, $DB_NAME, $DB_PORT);//this is the unique connection for the selection
mysqli_set_charset( $con, 'utf8');
$slct_stmnt = "SELECT ".$SELECT_WHAT." FROM ".$WHICH_TBL." WHERE ".$ON_WHAT_CONDITION;
$slct_query = mysqli_query($con, $slct_stmnt);
if ($slct_query==true) {
//Do your stuff here . . .
}
And it worked like a charm. All the best. The above code can work with reading chineese, russian or arabic or any international language from the database's table column holding such data.
claude dot pache at gmail dot com ¶
7 years ago
Although the documentation says that using that function is preferred than using SET NAMES, it is not sufficient in case you use a collation different from the default one:
<?php
// That will reset collation_connection to latin1_swedish_ci
// (the default collation for latin1):
$mysqli->set_charset('latin1');
// You have to execute the following statement *after* mysqli::set_charset()
// in order to get the desired value for collation_connection:
$mysqli->query("SET NAMES latin1 COLLATE latin1_german1_ci");
ASchmidt at Anamera dot net ¶
6 years ago
To align both the character set (e.g., utf8mb4) AND the collation sequence with the schema (database) settings:
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli( DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_SCHEMA, DB_PORT );
if ( 0 !== $mysqli->connect_errno )
throw new \Exception( $mysqli->connect_error, $mysqli->connect_errno );
if ( TRUE !== $mysqli->set_charset( 'utf8mb4' ) )
throw new \Exception( $mysql->error, $mysqli->errno );
if ( TRUE !== $mysqli->query( 'SET collation_connection = @@collation_database;' ) )
throw new \Exception( $mysql->error, $mysqli->errno );
?>
To confirm:
<?php
echo 'character_set_name: ', $mysqli->character_set_name(), '<br />', PHP_EOL;
foreach( $mysqli->query( "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%_connection';" )->fetch_all() as $setting )
echo $setting[0], ': ', $setting[1], '<br />', PHP_EOL;
?>
will output something like:
character_set_name: utf8mb4
character_set_connection: utf8mb4
collation_connection: utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
chris at ocproducts dot com ¶
6 years ago
Note that using utf8mb4 with this function may cause this function to return false, depending on the MySQL client library compiled into PHP. If the client library is older than the introduction of utf8mb4, then PHP's call of the libraries 'mysql_set_character_set' will return an error because it won't recognise that character set.
The only way you will know there's an error is by checking the return value, because PHP warnings are not emitted by this function.
mysqli_error will return something like:
"Can't initialize character set utf8mb4 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/)"
(I don't think the directory has anything to do with it; I think the utf8mb4 vs utf8 distinction is handled internally)
A workaround is to recall with utf8, then do a 'SET NAMES' query with utf8mb4.
If your MySQL server is configured to use utf8 by default, then you may not notice any of this until you get obscure bugs. It seems it will still save into the database correctly in terms of bytes. However, you may get "Data too long for column" errors if you are truncating strings to fit fields, because from MySQL's point of view during the length check every 4-byte character will actually be multiple individual characters. This caused me hours of debugging.
