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Convert MySQL collation from utf8mb4 to utf8
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dbconversion.php
<?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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