Chinese Web Sites Using PHP - v2.23, by Herong Yang
Steps and Components Involved
This section describes steps and application components involved in inputting Chinese characters through Web forms.
In order to capture Chinese input text from Web forms and display it back on Web pages properly, you need to understand how an input text is being collected by the Web browser, and delivered to the PHP engine through various application components. Here is a simplified diagram that shows the steps and application components involved in this process:
C1. Key Sequences from keyboard | |- Web browser v C2. HTTP Request | |- Web server v C3. CGI input | |- PHP engine v C4. CGI output | |- Web server v C5. HTTP response (HTML document) | |- Web browser v C6. Chinese characters on the screen
If you decided to use UTF-8 encoding to handle Chinese characters, you need to make sure that all application components mentioned in the above diagram are friendly to UTF-8 encoding. See the following picture:
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
►Steps and Components Involved
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in UTF-8
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in GB18030
Processing Chinese Input on Web Forms in Big5
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to UTF-8 Web Forms
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to GB18030 Web Forms
Copying and Pasting Chinese Input to Big5 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