set names utf8 Topic is solved

[newclear]

Hello,
I just started looking the CMSms code. its not so easy for me (like a developer) to understand how the structure of the classes is generated to create this really simple to use CMS.

That's what I tried to do was to just 'set names utf8' to mysql server. I solve my problem but I lose 2 hours to understand how to use adodb and where to put my 2 lines of code.

So the solution is:
on file include.php, line 142 add theese lines:

$db_set=$gCms->GetDb();
$db_set->Execute('set names utf8');

I hope you will create better way to control the encoding in the future release of CMSms.

My questions here are:
Are theese lines included in both frontend and admin site of CMSms and are they the first query to the mysql server?

Best regards for the great work.

[Sonya]

I hope you will create better way to control the encoding in the future release of CMSms.

I've run in the same problem. I read that CMSMS is utf-8 and I do not have to change anything. My fault. I have written down my content and let user to add a lot of comments. My content was not stored with utf-8 in database. Now I have to export the content-related tables, change table encoding in utf-8 and then import the content again. It's a lot of work for me.

Please, make clear in your documentation that only source files are in utf-8. Database encoding has to be changed before installation. And if you are on the shared server and cannot edit my.cnf then you have to add the 2 lines from the previous post to be able to save and read utf-8 content.

Thank you!
PS. And I still love CMSMS