PHP + SQL Server - How to set charset for connection?

Question

I\'m trying to store some data in a SQL Server database through php.

Problem is that special chars aren\'t converted properly. My app\'s charset is iso-8859-1 and th

Answer 1

In my case, It worked after I added the "CharacterSet" parameters into sqlsrv_connect() connection's option.

$connectionInfo = array( 
        "Database"=>$DBNAME,
        "ConnectionPooling"=>0,
        "CharacterSet"=>"UTF-8"
);
$LAST_CONNECTION = sqlsrv_connect($DBSERVER, $connectionInfo);

See documentation here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/connection-options?view=sql-server-2017