Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP - Version 2.14, by Dr. Herong Yang
Summary - Fetching Chinese Text from Database to Web
This section provides a summary on how to fetch Chinese text from MySQL database and send it to a Web page through Apache.
Retrieving Chinese characters from MySQL database and display them on Web pages requires that:
In the PHP Web page script, we have to:
In addition to UTF-8, GBK and Big5 are also supported by MySQL server and Web browsers.
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