I have one database, with one table, with a particular field which has descriptions of various clothing. These descriptions often contain umlauts or similar characters.
I am retrieving this fields from two different php fields, and I am not doing anything to the data, yet it displays inconsistently.
In file1, it will display correctly as it is below, or adding
$con->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
and
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
If I only add one of the above to file1, the data will not display correctly.
In file2, it will only display correctly if
$con->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
is set.
Adding either
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
in union with the set names query, or leaving the set names query out will cause it to display incorrectly.
$con->set_charset("utf8");
seems to make no difference at any point.
This issue exists on internet explorer and firefox on windows and linux.
An example of the data which displays inconsistently:
ED HARDY SCHUHE IM JAPAN-STYLE, GRÖßE 36
File1:
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
if (isset($_GET["pk"])) {
$pk = $_GET["pk"];
}
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","user","password", "database");
if (!$con) {
echo "Can't connect to MySQL Server. Errorcode: %s\n". mysqli_connect_error();
exit;
}
$con->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
$retreiveQuery = 'SELECT ARTICLE_NAME FROM AUCTIONS WHERE ARTICLE_NO = ?';
if ($getRecords = $con->prepare($retreiveQuery)) {
$getRecords->bind_param("s", $pk);
$getRecords->execute();
$getRecords->bind_result($ARTICLE_NAME);
while ($getRecords->fetch()) {
echo "<h1>".$ARTICLE_NAME."</h1>";
}
} else {
print_r($con->error);
}
File2:
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
if (isset($_GET["brand"])) {
$brand = $_GET["brand"];
}
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pass", "database");
if (!$con) {
echo "Can't connect to MySQL Server. Errorcode: %s\n". mysqli_connect_error();
exit;
}
$con->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
$brand = '%' . $brand . '%';
$rows = getRowsByArticleSearch($brand);
echo "<table border='0' width='100%'><tr>" . "\n";
foreach ($rows as $row) {
$pk = $row['ARTICLE_NO'];
echo '<tr id="article_' . $pk . '">' . "\n";
echo '<td><a href="#" onclick="updateByPk(\'Layer2\', \'' . $pk . '\', \'' . $title . '\', \'' . $pg . '\')">'.$row['ARTICLE_NAME'].'</a></td>' . "\n";
echo '</tr>' . "\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
function getRowsByArticleSearch($searchString) {
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pass", "db");
$recordsQuery = "SELECT ARTICLE_NAME FROM AUCTIONS WHERE lower(ARTICLE_NAME) LIKE ? and SUBCAT='' LIMIT 0,20";
if ($getRecords = $con->prepare($recordsQuery)) {
$getRecords->bind_param("s", $searchString);
$getRecords->execute();
$getRecords->bind_result($ARTICLE_NAME);
$rows = array();
while ($getRecords->fetch()) {
$row = array(
'ARTICLE_NAME' => $ARTICLE_NAME,
);
$rows[] = $row;
}
return $rows;
} else {
print_r($con->error);
}
}
I have an ajax applicaition, with index.php, for which I set
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
I then load a layer with content via ajax using file2, which displays the data incorrectly. The data becomes a link, which uses file1 to load data into a different layer, which does display the data correctly.
I really don't understand where the inconsistency is coming from.
edit:
The data displays correctly in file1 with set names and the headers set, and the page shows as utf-8.
File 2 will only display the data correctly when the webpage information shows the charset to be ISO-8859-1, which means omitting set names and setting the header.
