How to encode cyrillic in mysql?

Question

what\'s up? :-)
I have one problem and i hope you can help me with it.

One friend of mine have a simple solid html website and i implemented little php; CRUD sys

Answer 1

For anyone having more complex issues with legacy project upgrades from versions before PHP 5.6 and MYSQL 5.1 to PHP 7 & Latest MySQL/Percona/MariaDB etc...

If the project uses utf8_encode($value) you can either try removing the function from the value being prepared and use the accepted answer for setting UTF-8 encoding for all input.

--- OR ---

Try replacing utf8_encode($value) with mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8')

PDO USERS

If you are using PDO here are two ways how to set utf8:

$options = [
    \PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'
];

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd, $options);

--- OR ---

$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;charset=utf8;'

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd);

I can confirm that mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8') to SQL table using utf8_unicode_ci works for Cyrillic and Umlaut.