通过php和vba将汉字插入mysql

Question

I tried still cannot input the Chinese character into the field..

The url looks like this: http://xxx.xxx/AddCategory.php?CatID=0001&NameTC =石油&NameEN=Petroleum%20Gases&Random=1.401764E-02

It works for URL but I am using VBA to run the url through php to update the mysql, it doesnt work. so maybe due to encoding problem in vba or php? Please advise!

IN vba, I am using MSXLM2.XMLHTTP

Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
    Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest")
        MsgBox "Error 0 has occured while creating a    MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest object"
    End If

CatID | CatName_TC | CatName_EN

Expected:

1001 | 工業 | Industrial

Results:

1001 | [Nothing] | Industrial

I use Excel VBA to store these data into 3 variable and use web of php with parameter to insert into my mysql. I could not insert the Chinese character into the database. I could do it for CatID and CatName_EN, but add nothing on the field CatName_TC.

VBA Code:

    Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest")
            MsgBox "Error 0 has occured while creating a MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest object"
        End If
        On Error GoTo 0
        If oHttp Is Nothing Then
            MsgBox "For some reason I wasn't able to make a MSXML2.XMLHTTP object"
            Exit Function
        End If

        'Open the URL in browser object
        On Error Resume Next
        oHttp.Open "GET", sURL, False
        oHttp.Send
        oHttp.waitforresponse (10)
        GetWebHTML =

 oHttp.responseText

php Code:

    $mysqli = new mysqli("site", "name", "pass", "db");

    $CatID = isset($_GET['CatID']) ? htmlspecialchars($_GET["CatID"]) : NULL;
    $NameTC = isset($_GET['NameTC']) ? htmlspecialchars($_GET["NameTC"]) : NULL;
    $NameEN = isset($_GET['NameEN']) ? htmlspecialchars($_GET["NameEN"]) : NULL;

    $stmt = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO AACategory (AACatID, CatNameTC, CatNameEN) VALUES (?,?,?)");

    // TODO check that $stmt creation succeeded

    // "s" means the database expects a string
    $stmt->bind_param("sss", $CatID, $NameTC, $NameEN);

    $stmt->execute();

    $stmt->close();

    $mysqli->close();

Answer 1

The table could have been created with the default latin1 charset instead of utf8 . While it is not possible to convert existing values in CatNameTC column to utf8, you can alter the table for new inserts to use utf8 charset

ALTER TABLE AACategory CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;