[PHP] Changing Default Charset

Hello There, I am on a shared account server ( virtual hosting ) given by my provider. I want to change my charset that php uses to utf-8 but the default setting is some other charset. Can I put some local directives in the directory of my proggie to force php to use charset( UTF-8 ) instead of

[PHP] PHP MYSQL Drop Down Select Box

Hello Everyone, I am trying to make 2 drop down boxs using data from a mysql database , the code is attached , the problem is I have a category and a sub category table. The link between the two tables is the id ( ID in category table mid in subcat tables are the same ) . So i would like to