Symfony2+Doctrine: How to convert iso8859-1 to utf-8 and viceversa?

Question

We\'re building a Symfony2 app that\'s using an Oracle database. All the data in the DB is encoded as WE8ISO8859P15 (iso-8859-1), and all the website is encoded as utf-8.

Answer 1

You are able to set encoding of connection to your oracle db in config.yml. In your case you should set connection encoding to UTF-8 and Oracle should handle all conversion between UTF-8 (website) and iso-8859-1 (db) encoding. So putting this configuration in your config.yml should be enough:

doctrine:
    dbal:
        default_connection: oracle
        connections:
            oracle:
                driver:   %ora_database_driver%
                host:     %ora_database_host%
                port:     %ora_database_port%
                dbname:   %ora_database_name%
                user:     %ora_database_user%
                password: %ora_database_password%
                charset:  UTF8