I'm still stuck on the remaining two issues. I tried editing the my.ini and adding
init_connect='SET NAMES utf8'
but that didn't do the trick. It looks like I do need to add that charset command in the code itself, after the connect. So far when I try to add it into mysql.inc.php I get access denied.
UPDATE: It appears the reason this won't work is that if you log in with SUPER access it ignores this command. Their theory is that you might otherwise lock yourself out of your own database by accident. So now I'm trying to get a user without SUPER access to work with the database properly, to at least fix this part.
Last edited by BellaOnline; 12/27/2012 11:04 PM.
