<?php $database_name=''; $database_username=''; $database_password=''; $connection = mysqli_connect('localhost',$database_username,$database_password); if(!$connection) { echo "Cannot connect to the database – incorrect details"; } else{ mysqli_select_db($connection, $database_name); $result=mysqli_query($connection, 'show tables'); while($tables = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { foreach ($tables as $key => $value) { //echo "ALTER TABLE ".$value." CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci<br>"; mysqli_query( $connection, "ALTER TABLE ".$value." CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci"); } } echo "Successfull collation change!"; } mysqli_close($connection);