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CakePHP, MySQL: Issues with character sets / special chars

Problem Framework CakePHP sets strings to null which are loaded from database tables and contain special characters like German Umlaute. Solution In app/Config/database.php, add to your config array: ‘encoding’ => ‘utf8’ Example: public...

Upgrading MySQL – quickly and as simple as possible

Scenario You run a Windows server with MySQL DB, want to keep it up to date, keep all settings and the upgrade process should work as fast as possible. Unfortunately, the official MySQL upgrading guides are too detailed in most cases, however they don’t really...