I have a forum in which I'm tired of people complaining to me about getting php errors when they type certain characters. I tried really hard to make changes so it wouldn't return the error, and now I can preview messages just fine, but I can't actually post anything at all now.
phpMyAdmin - 2.11.9.5
I've been told by people that I need to type
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
as a query.
I assume that THIS would be the place where I would type a query:
But when I do, I get:
When I did some searching on this forum about utf8, I saw lines and lines and lines of "query code" and was overwhelmed to the point of shaking.
Initially I had went through and individually changed latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_unicode_ci...
But then when I went to check the main page, it showed this:
And I was unable to find any way to change those entries from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_unicode_ci. Then someone told me about
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
Which, as I stated earlier, doesn't work, it returns an error message.
Is there some easy way to change this to utf8, or is it a long process that I should probably look into paying someone to make changes to my forum?