entityManager = $entityManager; } /** * If two columns have incompatible collations returns MySQL's COLLATE command to be used with the target table column. * e.g. WHERE source_table.column = target_table.column COLLATE xyz * * In MySQL, if you have the same charset and collation in joined tables' columns it's perfect; * if you have different charsets, utf8 and utf8mb4, it works too; but if you have the same charset * with different collations, e.g. utf8mb4_unicode_ci and utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci, it will fail * with an 'Illegal mix of collations' error. */ public function getCollateIfNeeded(string $sourceTable, string $sourceColumn, string $targetTable, string $targetColumn): string { $connection = $this->entityManager->getConnection(); $sourceColumnData = $connection->executeQuery("SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM $sourceTable WHERE Field = '$sourceColumn';")->fetchAllAssociative(); $sourceCollation = $sourceColumnData[0]['Collation'] ?? ''; $targetColumnData = $connection->executeQuery("SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM $targetTable WHERE Field = '$targetColumn';")->fetchAllAssociative(); $targetCollation = $targetColumnData[0]['Collation'] ?? ''; if ($sourceCollation === $targetCollation) { return ''; } list($sourceCharset) = explode('_', $sourceCollation); list($targetCharset) = explode('_', $targetCollation); if ($sourceCharset === $targetCharset) { return "COLLATE $sourceCollation"; } return ''; } }