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How to change the collation for MySQL database to UTF-8? 0

How to change the collation for MySQL database to UTF-8?

Changing the collation for all tables in a MySQL database can be time consuming depending on how many tables you have.  That’s why we recommend using the following PHP script for changing the collation for all tables at a time: <?php $db = mysql_connect(‘localhost’,’DBUserName’,’DBPassword’); if(!$db) echo "Cannot connect to the...

Creating Custom Error Messages in Apache 1

Creating Custom Error Messages in Apache

Introduction The .htaccess file is a file found in Apache servers that allows you to manipulate the behaviour of the server. A very common use is to create custom error messages for server errors. Examples of such errors are “404 Not Found” (say when you click on a broken link),...

Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 7

Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1

Unicode background In the ever expanding world of e-commerce and information technology, one thing above all is coming to the forefront of internet design – globalization. For many large companies, web documents are translated into many different languages. However, the computer technologies we use for storing data weren’t originally designed...