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[solved] help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:22 pm
by plusma
Hello all

I have the following code:

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<?php
include_once("inc_sql.php");
$connect = mysql_connect(HOSTNAME, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(DATABASE, $connect);
$username = $_GET[username];
$result = mysql_query("select title, status, dateorder from Jobs");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $line = 'row title="'.$row[title].'" status="'.$row[status].'" dateorder="'.$row[dateorder].'"/';
    echo $line;
}
mysql_close( $connect );
?>
that should fetch me the results from table Jobs. so far so good. it works perfectly well
but there is ONE MAJOR FAULT: it doesnt fetch greek characters correctly.
(the table and fields have UTF-8 encoding).

the result is:

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row title="Dokimastiko ena" status="kenostatus" dateorder="2008-02-01"/row title="??????? ??? CRF" status="test" dateorder="2008-02-08"/
do you see the questionmarks? (title="??????? ??? CRF") these characters should be greek
so the correct reply from php should be

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row title="Dokimastiko ena" status="kenostatus" dateorder="2008-02-01"/row title="??????? ??? CRF" status="test" dateorder="2008-02-08"/
from phpMyAdmin greek appear ok in this record.

does anyone know or have a hint where exactly the problem is? i have tried utf8_encode but nothing happened.

any idea would be much appreciated as i am a php-newbie :)

THANK YOU ALL

minas
athens, greece
http://plus.ma

Re: help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks instead of greek

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:49 pm
by Christopher
Is it not fetching the correct values (view source to determine this)? Or is it not displaying correctly because the page is not using the UTF-8 charset?

Re: help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks instead of greek

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:19 pm
by plusma
it IS fetching the correct rows, the sql query statement is ok so is the results.

actually, the php code i use is not the above (which is simplified), my php code echoes
xml statements so that the results are being imported into flash (actionscript). so the
problem first occured because the datagrid in flash was questionmarks instead of greek
characters. so i started tracing to find out where exactly the problem is and saw that
the php isnt echoing the correct characters...


to see what i mean, lets simplify a bit the code:

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<?php
include_once("inc_sql.php");
$connect = mysql_connect(HOSTNAME, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(DATABASE, $connect);
$username = $_GET[username];
$result = mysql_query("select title, status, dateorder from Jobs");
[b]echo '????? ';[/b]
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    [b]$line = 'row title="'.$row[title].'"/ ';[/b]
    echo $line;
}
mysql_close( $connect );
?>
the result will be

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????? row title="Dokimastiko ena"/ row title="??????? ??? CRF"/
which means (as far as i understand things) that page encoding IS ok

if I change the browser's encoding at run and say that i choose a non-greek encoding the result is:

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ìçíÜò row title="Dokimastiko ena"/ row title="??????? ??? CRF"/
which contains again the questionmarks but the word ????? appears now as ìçíÜò.
that proves (to my iq lol) that the result is coming to php corrupted. its not the php encoding fault.
perhaps it has something to do with mysql_fetch_array ?

thanx

minas

Re: help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks instead of greek

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:29 pm
by Christopher

Re: help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks instead of greek

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:57 am
by plusma
thanx! i will take a look and post here

:)

minas

Re: help needed: mysql + php -> questionmarks instead of greek

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:45 am
by plusma
ok!!

I added the line

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mysql_query("SET NAMES greek", $connect);  
and the problem was solved! thank you arborint!!

i will try to change the topic title to [solved]

cheers

minas
athens,greece