How can UTF-8 collation settings be adjusted in PHP to properly store and retrieve kyrillische Zeichen?

To properly store and retrieve Cyrillic characters in PHP with UTF-8 collation settings, you can adjust the collation settings in your database connection to support UTF-8 encoding. This ensures that the database can store and retrieve Cyrillic characters correctly without any encoding issues.

// Adjust collation settings for UTF-8 in PHP
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Set UTF-8 collation settings
$conn->set_charset("utf8");

// Your database operations here

// Close connection
$conn->close();