How to make the database connection to be utf-8 compliant in this setting? - phalcon

Question

This is my index.php file ( the database is MySQL ) :
<?php
use Phalcon\Loader;
use Phalcon\DI\FactoryDefault;
use Phalcon\Mvc\View;
use Phalcon\Mvc\Application;
use Phalcon\Mvc\Url as UrlProvider;
use Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql as DbAdapter;
include("../app/config_const.php");
include("../app/config_inc.php");
include("../app/lib/PSR.php");
try {
// Register an autoloader
$loader = new Loader();
$loader->registerDirs(array(
'../app/controllers/',
'../app/models/'
))->register();
// Create a DI
$di = new FactoryDefault();
// Setup the database service
$di->set('db', function(){
$cnx = new DbAdapter(array(
"host" => "localhost",
"username" => "root",
"password" => "",
"dbname" => BDD
));
return $cnx;
});
// Setup the view component
$di->set('view', function(){
$view = new View();
$view->setViewsDir('../app/views/');
$view->registerEngines(array(
".phtml" => 'Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt'
));
return $view;
});
// Setup a base URI so that all generated URIs include the "phalcon" folder
$di->set('url', function(){
$url = new UrlProvider();
$url->setBaseUri('/resto/');
return $url;
});
//Register the flash service with custom CSS classes
$di->set('flash', function(){
$flash = new \Phalcon\Flash\Direct(array(
'error' => 'alert alert-error',
'success' => 'alert alert-success',
'notice' => 'alert alert-info',
));
return $flash;
});
//Handle the request
$app = new Application($di);
echo $app->handle()->getContent();
} catch(\Exception $e) {
echo "Exception: ", $e->getMessage();
}
?>
How to make the database setting to be utf-8 compliant in this case ?

Answer 1

Add encoding parameter to DB adapter as well:
// Setup the database service
$di->set('db', function(){
$cnx = new DbAdapter(array(
"host" => "localhost",
"username" => "root",
"password" => "",
"dbname" => BDD,
"charset" => "utf8",
"options" => array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'
),
));
return $cnx;
});
Reference.
Also you can set encoding to your .htaccess file:
# your file could start with something like this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# add next line
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Answer 2

Ok I found the solution : I modified the ssp.class.php for the server processing :
static function sql_connect($sql_details) {
try {
$db = #new PDO("mysql:host={$sql_details['host']};dbname={$sql_details['db']}",
$sql_details['user'],$sql_details['pass'],array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\'',
PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION));
$db->exec("set names utf8");
$db->exec("set character_set_client='utf8'");
$db->exec("set character_set_results='utf8'");
$db->exec("set collation_connection='utf8_bin'");
}
catch (PDOException $e) {
self::fatal("An error occurred while connecting to the database. ".
"The error reported by the server was: ".$e->getMessage());
}
return $db;
}