Repost: UTF-8, PHP and MySQL

This is a repost from Akrabat.com

The Problem:Get a £ (that is the pound sign) character stored to MySQL, retrieved and then displayed without any weird characters in front of it using UTF8.

//for the browser//header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");//OR////then for MySQLmysql_set_charset('utf8');//ormysqli_set_charset('utf8');//or execute the SQL immediately after connection://SET NAMES UTF8;//for PDO$handle = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=dbname", 'username', 'password', array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));//and finally for Zend_Db$params = array( 'host' => 'localhost', 'username' => 'username', 'password' => 'password', 'dbname' => 'dbname', 'driver_options' => array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES UTF8;'););$db = Zend_Db::factory('PDO_MYSQL', $params);

A million thanks to Rob for this post.