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Strange Characters in database text: Ã, Ã, ¢, â‚ €,

September 2, 2023 by Tarik

If the charset of the tables is the same as it’s content try to use mysql_set_charset(‘UTF8’, $link_identifier). Note that MySQL uses UTF8 to specify the UTF-8 encoding instead of UTF-8 which is more common. Check my other answer on a similar question too.

Categories database Tags character-encoding, database, prestashop Leave a comment

Magento or Prestashop, which is better? [closed]

July 24, 2023 by Tarik

Having looked under the covers of both of these beasts I can’t say that I actually like either of them as they’re both rather ugly when you pop the bonnet and something like OpenCart is actually a much nice and easier to work with solution. However, from a feature perspective OpenCart is nowhere near either … Read more

Categories magento Tags e-commerce, magento, prestashop Leave a comment

Tarik Billa

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