A problem with UTF-8

PHP
1

Hello,

I have a problem with the php code bellow, I tried many times to set UTF-8
but without any success, I don’t thing the problem with my database, because
I check it and it’s utf8-bin, but how can i retrieve the data from it and
display in the php page as utf-8, this is real problem…???

include("config.php"); 
// database connection info  
$conn = mysql_connect($server, $db_user, $db_pass) or trigger_error("SQL", E_USER_ERROR);  
$db = mysql_select_db($database,$conn) or trigger_error("SQL", E_USER_ERROR);  
  
// find out how many rows are in the table   
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $table";  
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or trigger_error("SQL", E_USER_ERROR);  
$r = mysql_fetch_row($result);  
$numrows = $r[0];  
  
// number of rows to show per page  
$rowsperpage = 20;  
// find out total pages  
$totalpages = ceil($numrows / $rowsperpage);  
  
// get the current page or set a default  
if (isset($_GET['currentpage']) && is_numeric($_GET['currentpage'])) {  
   // cast var as int  
   $currentpage = (int) $_GET['currentpage'];  
} else {  
   // default page num  
   $currentpage = 1;  
} // end if  
  
// if current page is greater than total pages...  
if ($currentpage > $totalpages) {  
   // set current page to last page  
   $currentpage = $totalpages;  
} // end if  
// if current page is less than first page...  
if ($currentpage < 1) {  
   // set current page to first page  
   $currentpage = 1;  
} // end if  
  
// the offset of the list, based on current page   
$offset = ($currentpage - 1) * $rowsperpage;  
  
// get the info from the db   
$sql = "SELECT linkname, link FROM $table order by id desc LIMIT $offset, $rowsperpage"; 
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or trigger_error("SQL", E_USER_ERROR);  
  
// while there are rows to be fetched...  
while ($list = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {  
   
   echo htmlentities(strip_tags($list['linkname'], 'UTF-8')) . " : " . '<a href="http://'. htmlentities(strip_tags($list['link'], 'UTF-8')) .'">'. htmlentities(strip_tags($list['link'], 'UTF-8')) .'</a>' . "<br />";  
} // end while
2

I tried the both solutions and they are not working, I think the problem comes from pagination code, what you think ?

3

mayb this will help you:

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

I don’t know if is a good practice but it helped me many times.

4

Hey try this…

You should make sure your HTML has:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Then check your PHP INI file, or put this in PHP:

ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');

I usually use utf8_general_ci for mysql but I don’t know if it matters between what you are using.