Question
I'm trying to use a managed database but without success.
- Posted on January 15, 2020
- DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
Asked by aarnold69607b07794fbfca66e
Hi, I created a managed database to use with my droplet, imported all fine but when trying to connect via php I get this error “Server sent charset unknown to the client.” I understand this is caused by the utfmb4 charset that is configured in the MySql from the managed instance. How can I change this (to the database level and not schema or table level) so I can work with it? Thanks
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Actually you can’t change managed database server’s chartset. So here work around only to change your php script to connect with server using utfmb4.
If you can post your database connection code then we can help you.
Here is sample code to connect with server using utfmb8 in php with pdo.
Any News about this? I also cannot connect from my PHP application due to the same error “Server sent charset unknown to the client”. Recreation did not fixed it…
Can you recreate a db with utf8, re import and try again?
Other fixes usually have to do with mysql config, but you don’t have access to it with a managed instance