if you are having problems with encoding pages/characters,
try this.
<?php
$servername='localhost';
$dbusername='myusername';
$dbpassword='mypassword';
$dbname='mydatabase';
connecttodb($servername,$dbname,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
function connecttodb($servername,$dbname,$dbuser,$dbpassword)
{
global $link;
$link=mysql_connect ("$servername","$dbuser","$dbpassword");
if(!$link)
{
die("Could not connect to MySQL");
}
mysql_select_db("$dbname",$link) or die ("could not open database");
}
?>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="now" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
</head>
<table>
<?php
$Category_SQL = "select * from mytable";
$Category_Result = mysql_query("SET NAMES 'latin5'");
$Category_Result = mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET latin5");
$Category_Result = mysql_query("SET COLLATION_CONNECTION = 'latin5_turkish_ci'");
$Category_Result = mysql_query($Category_SQL);
while($Category_Write = mysql_fetch_array($Category_Result))
{
?>
<tr>
<td >◊ <?php print $Category_Write[1]; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
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