Problem with charset and JSON

Hey guys,
I’m learning PHP and I have HUGE problem with charset. How I can make this work with German letters…? I tried:
add this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in html
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mysqli_set_charset($connect,"utf8") in php

Code:
PHP:

<?php
//fetch.php
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "testing");
$columns = array('first_name', 'last_name');

$query = "SELECT * FROM user ";

if(isset($_POST["search"]["value"]))
{
 $query .= '
 WHERE first_name LIKE "%'.$_POST["search"]["value"].'%" 
 OR last_name LIKE "%'.$_POST["search"]["value"].'%" 
 ';
}

if(isset($_POST["order"]))
{
 $query .= 'ORDER BY '.$columns[$_POST['order']['0']['column']].' '.$_POST['order']['0']['dir'].' 
 ';
}
else
{
 $query .= 'ORDER BY id DESC ';
}

$query1 = '';

if($_POST["length"] != -1)
{
 $query1 = 'LIMIT ' . $_POST['start'] . ', ' . $_POST['length'];
}

$number_filter_row = mysqli_num_rows(mysqli_query($connect, $query));

$result = mysqli_query($connect, $query . $query1);

$data = array();

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
 $sub_array = array();
 $sub_array[] = '<div contenteditable class="update" data-id="'.$row["id"].'" data-column="first_name">' . $row["first_name"] . '</div>';
 $sub_array[] = '<div contenteditable class="update" data-id="'.$row["id"].'" data-column="last_name">' . $row["last_name"] . '</div>';
 $sub_array[] = '<button type="button" name="delete" class="btn btn-danger btn-xs delete" id="'.$row["id"].'">Delete</button>';
 $data[] = $sub_array;
}

function get_all_data($connect)
{
 $query = "SELECT * FROM user";
 $result = mysqli_query($connect, $query);
 return mysqli_num_rows($result);
}

$output = array(
 "draw"    => intval($_POST["draw"]),
 "recordsTotal"  =>  get_all_data($connect),
 "recordsFiltered" => $number_filter_row,
 "data"    => $data
);

echo json_encode($output);

?>

<?php
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "testing");
if(isset($_POST["first_name"], $_POST["last_name"]))
{
 $first_name = mysqli_real_escape_string($connect, $_POST["first_name"]);
 $last_name = mysqli_real_escape_string($connect, $_POST["last_name"]);
 $query = "INSERT INTO user(first_name, last_name) VALUES('$first_name', '$last_name')";
 if(mysqli_query($connect, $query))
 {
  echo 'Data Inserted';
 }
}
?>
<?php
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "testing");
if(isset($_POST["id"]))
{
 $value = mysqli_real_escape_string($connect, $_POST["value"]);
 $query = "UPDATE user SET ".$_POST["column_name"]."='".$value."' WHERE id = '".$_POST["id"]."'";
 if(mysqli_query($connect, $query))
 {
  echo 'Data Updated';
 }
}
?>
<?php
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "testing");
if(isset($_POST["id"]))
{
 $query = "DELETE FROM user WHERE id = '".$_POST["id"]."'";
 if(mysqli_query($connect, $query))
 {
  echo 'Data Deleted';
 }
}
?>

JSON:

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Live Add Edit Delete Datatables Records using PHP Ajax</title>
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/js/dataTables.bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.4/css/bootstrap-datepicker.css" />
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.4/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>
  <style>
  body
  {
   margin:0;
   padding:0;
   background-color:#f1f1f1;
  }
  .box
  {
   width:1270px;
   padding:20px;
   background-color:#fff;
   border:1px solid #ccc;
   border-radius:5px;
   margin-top:25px;
   box-sizing:border-box;
  }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div class="container box">
   <h1 align="center">Live Add Edit Delete Datatables Records using PHP Ajax</h1>
   <br />
   <div class="table-responsive">
   <br />
    <div align="right">
     <button type="button" name="add" id="add" class="btn btn-info">Add</button>
    </div>
    <br />
    <div id="alert_message"></div>
    <table id="user_data" class="table table-bordered table-striped">
     <thead>
      <tr>
       <th>Frist Name</th>
       <th>Last Name</th>
       <th></th>
      </tr>
     </thead>
    </table>
   </div>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" >
 $(document).ready(function(){
  
  fetch_data();

  function fetch_data()
  {
   var dataTable = $('#user_data').DataTable({
    "processing" : true,
    "serverSide" : true,
    "order" : [],
    "ajax" : {
     url:"fetch.php",
     type:"POST"
    }
   });
  }
  
  function update_data(id, column_name, value)
  {
   $.ajax({
    url:"update.php",
    method:"POST",
    data:{id:id, column_name:column_name, value:value},
    success:function(data)
    {
     $('#alert_message').html('<div class="alert alert-success">'+data+'</div>');
     $('#user_data').DataTable().destroy();
     fetch_data();
    }
   });
   setInterval(function(){
    $('#alert_message').html('');
   }, 5000);
  }

  $(document).on('blur', '.update', function(){
   var id = $(this).data("id");
   var column_name = $(this).data("column");
   var value = $(this).text();
   update_data(id, column_name, value);
  });
  
  $('#add').click(function(){
   var html = '<tr>';
   html += '<td contenteditable id="data1"></td>';
   html += '<td contenteditable id="data2"></td>';
   html += '<td><button type="button" name="insert" id="insert" class="btn btn-success btn-xs">Insert</button></td>';
   html += '</tr>';
   $('#user_data tbody').prepend(html);
  });
  
  $(document).on('click', '#insert', function(){
   var first_name = $('#data1').text();
   var last_name = $('#data2').text();
   if(first_name != '' && last_name != '')
   {
    $.ajax({
     url:"insert.php",
     method:"POST",
     data:{first_name:first_name, last_name:last_name},
     success:function(data)
     {
      $('#alert_message').html('<div class="alert alert-success">'+data+'</div>');
      $('#user_data').DataTable().destroy();
      fetch_data();
     }
    });
    setInterval(function(){
     $('#alert_message').html('');
    }, 5000);
   }
   else
   {
    alert("Both Fields is required");
   }
  });
  
  $(document).on('click', '.delete', function(){
   var id = $(this).attr("id");
   if(confirm("Are you sure you want to remove this?"))
   {
    $.ajax({
     url:"delete.php",
     method:"POST",
     data:{id:id},
     success:function(data){
      $('#alert_message').html('<div class="alert alert-success">'+data+'</div>');
      $('#user_data').DataTable().destroy();
      fetch_data();
     }
    });
    setInterval(function(){
     $('#alert_message').html('');
    }, 5000);
   }
  });
 });
</script>

Thanks!!!

You have much bigger problems. This code is extremely insecure and vulnerable to an SQL Injection Attack. Your entire database could be wiped out no problem.

You need to use Prepared Statements. Never ever put variables in your query.

Thanks, I did it! But still having problems with UTF-8 charset :frowning:

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