Doctrine2: How to set all tables to collate with UTF8

Question

I am using Doctrine with Symfony2. My config.yml file looks something like this:-

Doctrine Configuration

doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver: %data         


        

Answer 1

Use code below to set collation, engine and charset (annotation example):

/**
* @ORM\Table(
*     name="temporary", 
*     options={"collate":"utf8_general_ci", "charset":"utf8", "engine":"MyISAM"}
* )  
* @ORM\Entity
*/    

Source: http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/annotations-reference.html#annref-column

Answer 2

I suggest you try add this setting to your Doctrine configuration:

    options:
        1002: "SET NAMES 'UTF8' COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci'"

So it looks like this:

    doctrine:
        dbal:
            driver: %database_driver%
            host: %database_host%
            port: %database_port%
            dbname: %database_name%
            user: %database_user%
            password: %database_password%
            charset: UTF8
            options:
                1002: "SET NAMES 'UTF8' COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci'"              

As a reference Doctrine Configuration: http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/reference/configuration/doctrine.html#reference-dbal-configuration

And in case you are using MySql: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html

BTW. I had problems with displaying polish characters and adding only set names without collation (as below) helped.

    options:
        1002: "SET NAMES 'UTF8'

Answer 3

I've got this problems with fetching data which includes polish characters from database. It looks like:

effects of displaying data from db

my config.yml is like:

doctrine:
dbal:
    driver:   pdo_mysql
    host:     "%database_host%"
    port:     "%database_port%"
    dbname:   "%database_name%"
    user:     "%database_user%"
    password: "%database_password%"
    charset:  UTF8
    options:
         1002:  "SET NAMES 'UTF8'"

and I've been searching for an answer for couple of hours - Im so tired of this. "1002: SET NAMES 'utf8'" Doesnt work for me. But when I tryed to access my db from simple php script (out of symfony) the effect was the same but when I added line:

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

it worked properly. So it seems to be little strange. All the tables in my db have 'utf8_unicode_ci' set.

Answer 4

I met the same problems. By search the code, I find the code in vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Platforms/MySqlPlatform.php

if ( ! isset($options['collate'])) {
  $options['collate'] = 'utf8_unicode_ci';
}

So I changed it to 'utf8_general_ci', and it worked. All of tables' collation changed to utf8_general_ci after rebuild, but I still have one question: when I changed the annotations, I got the following error message:

[Creation Error] The annotation @ORM\Table declared on class Gvsun\UserBundle\Entity\User does not have a property named "collation". Available properties: name, schema, indexes, uniqueConstraints, options

I search the documentation of Doctrine, but I didn't find the 'option' property, can someone tell me how to use options property, I think it might be able to change collate in annotations settings?

Answer 5

I have successfully used options: collate in YML configuration of Symfony 2.7.

MyBundle\Entity\Company:
    type: entity
    repositoryClass: MyBundle\Repository\CompanyRepository
    table: company
    options:
        collate: utf8_general_ci

Answer 6

if you are looking for a way to have migrations be created correctly you should setup the connection

you can set the default_table_options connection option to achieve this: in symfony this is done through:

doctrine:
    dbal:
        default_table_options:
            charset: utf8
            collate: utf8_general_ci

for those looking to do it in plain doctrine this translates to doctrine connection option defaultDatabaseOptions, and is passed to the entity manager together with your database credentials etc:

[
    ...
    'driver' => ...
    'user' => ...
    ...
    'defaultDatabaseOptions' => [
         'charset' => 'utf8',
         'collate' => 'utf8_general_ci'
    ]
]