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September 10, 2015 03:24
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Convert MySQL collation from utf8mb4 to utf8
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<?php | |
$dbname = 'your-database-name'; | |
mysql_connect('your-database-hostname', 'your-database-username', 'your-database-password'); | |
mysql_query("ALTER DATABASE `$dbname` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci"); | |
$result = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES FROM `$dbname`"); | |
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { | |
$query = "ALTER TABLE {$dbname}.`{$row[0]}` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci"; | |
mysql_query($query); | |
$query = "ALTER TABLE {$dbname}.`{$row[0]}` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci"; | |
mysql_query($query); | |
} | |
echo 'All the tables have been converted successfully'; | |
?> |
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