Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP - Version 2.14, by Dr. Herong Yang
Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web
This section describes how to fetch Chinese text from MySQL database and send it to a Web page through Apache.
The next test I did was to try to move Chinese text from MySQL database to a Web page without changing any default settings of MySQL session variables and HTML document headers. In the test PHP script below, I used Hex numbers to insert some Chinese characters in UTF-8, GBK, GB2312, and Big5 encodings. See other chapters in this book on how to insert Chinese characters into MySQL database.
<?php #- MySQL-Web-Chinese-Default.php #- Copyright (c) 2015, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved. # $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "Herong", "TopSecret"); $ok = mysql_select_db("HerongDB", $con); $test_name = "Moving Chinese Text from Database to Web"; print('<html>'); print('<body><pre>'."\n"); # Delete the record $sql = "DELETE FROM Comment_Mixed WHERE Test_Name ='$test_name'"; mysql_query($sql, $con); print("\nNumber of rows deleted: ".mysql_affected_rows()."\n"); # Build the SQL INSERT statement $sql = <<<END_OF_MESSAGE INSERT INTO Comment_Mixed (Test_name, String_ASCII, String_Latin1, String_UTF8, String_GBK, String_Big5) VALUES ('$test_name', 'Television', X'54E96CE9766973696F6E', X'E794B5E8A786E69CBA2FE99BBBE8A696E6A99F', X'B5E7CAD3BBFA', X'B971B5F8BEF7'); END_OF_MESSAGE; mysql_query($sql, $con); print("\nNumber of rows inserted: ".mysql_affected_rows()."\n"); # Fetch text data from database $sql = "SELECT * FROM Comment_Mixed" . " WHERE Test_Name = '$test_name'"; $res = mysql_query($sql, $con); # Send text data output if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) { print("\nTest Name = ".$row['Test_Name']."\n"); print(" String_ASCII: ".$row['String_ASCII']."\n"); print(" String_Latin1: ".$row['String_Latin1']."\n"); print(" String_UTF8: ".$row['String_UTF8']."\n"); print(" String_GBK: ".$row['String_GBK']."\n"); print(" String_Big5: ".$row['String_Big5']."\n"); } mysql_free_result($res); mysql_close($con); print('</pre></body></html>'); ?>
The output is displayed in the picture below:
Chinese characters in UTF-8, GBK(GB2312), and Big5 encodings are all failed to show on the Web page. There are possible causes of this error based on what I have from previous tests:
See the next section for corrections on this test PHP script.
Last update: 2015.
Table of Contents
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
Steps and Application Components Involved
Fetching ASCII Text from Database to Web
►Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web
Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web in UTF-8
Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web in GBK
Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web in Big5
Summary - Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web