How to store Emoji Character in MySQL Database

Question

I am using Emoji character in my project. That characters are saved (??) into mysql database. I had used database Default collation in utf8mb4_general_ci. It sh

Answer 1

The simplest solution what works for me is to store the data as json_encode.

later when you retrieve just make sure you json_decode it.

Here you don't have to change the collation or the character set of the database and the table.