MySql，Php未设置为UTF8

Question

I'm inserting utf-8 data to the database with this code

$conn = new mysqli($hostname, $username, $password, $database);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

mysqli_set_charset($conn,"utf8");

$sql = "INSERT INTO Movies (Name, Year)
        VALUES ('".$_POST["name"]."', '".$_POST["year"]."')";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
    echo "New record created successfully";
} else {
    echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;
}

$conn->close();

But the data is added like this:

What should I do?

Answer 1

This is something I think you must fix in the back end, the PHP code is perfect, but you need to configure your database to utf-8 as well. You appear to be using PHPmyAdmin, when you create or import the table, you should see a drop down box to select the file's character set. Change this and you should be good to go!