Acents in Server Side
Acents in Server Side
juvayus
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I'm working on the server side. Everything works fine except if the words in the column I'm using are accented. How can I solve this problem?
PHP CODE
<?php
/* Database connection start */
$servername = "*******************";
$username = "**************************";
$password = "***************";
$dbname = "******************";
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname) or die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
/* Database connection end */
// storing request (ie, get/post) global array to a variable
$requestData= $_REQUEST;
$columns = array(
// datatable column index => database column name
0 =>'titulo',
1 => 'descripcion'
);
// getting total number records without any search
$sql = "SELECT titulo, descripcion ";
$sql.=" FROM ociospruebas";
$query=mysqli_query($conn, $sql) or die("employee-grid-data.php: get employees");
$totalData = mysqli_num_rows($query);
$totalFiltered = $totalData; // when there is no search parameter then total number rows = total number filtered rows.
if( !empty($requestData['search']['value']) ) {
// if there is a search parameter
$sql = "SELECT titulo, descripcion ";
$sql.=" FROM ociospruebas";
$sql.=" WHERE titulo LIKE '".$requestData['search']['value']."%' ";
// $requestData['search']['value'] contains search parameter
$sql.=" OR descripcion LIKE '".$requestData['search']['value']."%' ";
$query=mysqli_query($conn, $sql) or die("employee-grid-data.php: get employees");
$totalFiltered = mysqli_num_rows($query); // when there is a search parameter then we have to modify total number filtered rows as per search result without limit in the query
$sql.=" ORDER BY ". $columns[$requestData['order'][0]['column']]." ".$requestData['order'][0]['dir']." LIMIT ".$requestData['start']." ,".$requestData['length']." "; // $requestData['order'][0]['column'] contains colmun index, $requestData['order'][0]['dir'] contains order such as asc/desc , $requestData['start'] contains start row number ,$requestData['length'] contains limit length.
$query=mysqli_query($conn, $sql) or die("employee-grid-data.php: get employees"); // again run query with limit
} else {
$sql = "SELECT titulo, descripcion";
$sql.=" FROM ociospruebas";
$sql.=" ORDER BY ". $columns[$requestData['order'][0]['column']]." ".$requestData['order'][0]['dir']." LIMIT ".$requestData['start']." ,".$requestData['length']." ";
$query=mysqli_query($conn, $sql) or die("employee-grid-data.php: get employees");
}
$data = array();
while( $row=mysqli_fetch_array($query) ) { // preparing an array
$nestedData=array();
$nestedData[] = $row["titulo"];
$nestedData[] = $row["descripcion"];
$data[] = $nestedData;
}
$json_data = array(
"draw" => intval( $requestData['draw'] ), // for every request/draw by clientside , they send a number as a parameter, when they recieve a response/data they first check the draw number, so we are sending same number in draw.
"recordsTotal" => intval( $totalData ), // total number of records
"recordsFiltered" => intval( $totalFiltered ), // total number of records after searching, if there is no searching then totalFiltered = totalData
"data" => $data // total data array
);
echo json_encode($json_data); // send data as json format
<?php
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?>
# HTML CODE
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>Datatable Demo1 | CoderExample</title>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var dataTable = $('#employee-grid').DataTable( {
"processing": true,
"serverSide": true,
"ajax":{
url :"employee-grid-data.php", // json datasource
type: "post", // method , by default get
error: function(){ // error handling
$(".employee-grid-error").html("");
$("#employee-grid").append('<class="employee-grid-error"><tr><th colspan="3">No data found in the server</th></tr>');
$("#employee-grid_processing").css("display","none");
}
}
} );
} );
</script>
<style>
div.container {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width:760px;
}
div.header {
margin: 100px auto;
line-height:30px;
max-width:760px;
}
body {
background: #f7f7f7;
color: #333;
font: 90%/1.45em "Helvetica Neue",HelveticaNeue,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header"><h1>DataTable demo (Server side) in Php,Mysql and Ajax </h1></div>
<div class="container">
<table id="employee-grid" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="display" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Employee name</th>
<th>Employee name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
```
Replies
Do you mean they have accents shown in the client-side but they aren't in the database? That sounds like a very odd problem!
Allan
I mean that in my mysql database there are accents and when downloading to the datatable the answer is null
Is the MySQL database UTF8 and the PHP / MySQL connection UTF8? You can use
SET NAMES 'utf8';to make sure that it is.Allan
Yes, it is. How can I use set names ‘utf8’ in my code?
From the PHP manual:
Allan
Thanks
Could it be json problem sending information to html?
I don't believe so. If the page is UTF8, your JSON should be as well.
Allan