Summary

This section provides a quick summary on inputting Chinese characters into MySQL database through Web forms.

Inputting Chinese characters into MySQL database through Web forms requires that:

In the PHP Web page script, we have to:

In addition to UTF-8, GBK and Big5 are also supported by many versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL Server and Web browsers.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 PHP Installation on Windows Systems

 Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

 charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

 Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals

 Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

 Input Text Data from Web Forms

 Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms

 MySQL - Installation on Windows

 MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database

 MySQL - Character Set and Encoding

 MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL

 Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages

Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database

 Steps and Application Components Involved

 Inputting Chinese Text to MySQL Database in UTF-8

 Inputting Chinese Text to MySQL Database in GBK

 Inputting Chinese Text to MySQL Database in Big5

Summary

 Chinese Text Encoding Conversion and Corruptions

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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