I would need your help on this one because I can't find the solution myself:
I have a project built on cakephp ver 2.5.1. I'm entering data into my database on localhost (MAMP on my macbook; VARCHAR 255 utf8_bin - string being saved: HP) and all strings saved on my localhost appear in numbers (string HP is being saved as 4850).
The funny thing is if I copy that same database and import it on my production server all the strings are correct, HP is HP and not 4850... so I'm guessing I just misconfigured something on localhost...
Any help on the matter will be greatly appreciated!