How to set charset to UTF-8 in a Zend application?

Question

I am developping a Zend application. The data in my database is encoded in \"utf8_unicode_ci\". I declared in my application.ini :

resources.view.encoding =          


        

Answer 1

as others said we have to set the encoding, in my Zend framework I had to do it in little different way:

1. in db.ini file:

charset = "utf8"

adapter = PDO_MYSQL
dbname = skydevel_skydevfinal
username = root
password = 
hostname = localhost
sprofiler = false
charset = "utf8"

add this line below where you declared the database, username, etc.

2.Now in bootstrap.php file point the reference to that new line:

'charset'=>$dbConfig->charset

end_Db::factory($dbConfig->adapter, array('host' => $dbConfig->host,
                'username' => $dbConfig->username,
                'password' => $dbConfig->password,
                'dbname' => $dbConfig->dbname,
                'charset'=>$dbConfig->charset

3. you have to set your database and table to UTF-8, here is how I have done: ALTER DATABASE skydevel_skydevfinal CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci; ALTER TABLE ch_news_comments CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;