google geocode not working for addresses with special characters from database

Question

I\'m having an issue with special characters for addresses from my database for google geocode, but not if I hardcode them.

Simple geocode code

$url = \"         


        

Answer 1

What if, you do the following:

$query="SELECT * FROM mytable";
$result=mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $query);
while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
    $address = urlencode(mb_convert_encoding($row['address'], 'UTF-8'));
    // geocode code...
}