ABASE doesn′t display german umlauts (??ü?)

I had the same problem here. Strangely, when I put my tables in the same DB as WordPress, the problem disappears.

On another instance of my installation changing everything to the newest releases (MySQL -> MariaDB, PHP, WordPress itself) solved the problem too. In this setup I did not put the tables into the WordPresss instance and left it in its own database. MariaDB seems to work differently.
Why all this happened: I do not know…

Perhaps i found the solution that might work:
Wordpress -> Plugin -> Edit -> Put this after the database-connection:
$con->set_charset(“utf8”);

K?nnte funktionieren ??

Date format has me perplexed.

[abase table=”events” columns=”event_name,city,state,start_date” where=”AND start_date = ‘today'” ORDER=”start_date DESC” LIMIT=15]

What I would like to show is the next 15 events after “today”! Any asistance would be appreciated!

Love this plugin and hope to see it developed further! ?? sorry this was posted inside another thread ??

For those with UTF8 problems.

Find and Edit: abase/abase.php

Find this part of the code:

$abase_conn = mysql_connect($sqlHost, $sqlUser, $sqlPass) or die("<BR><font style='color: $error_color; background-color: white;'>".$GLOBALS['bus311mtd_page_shortcodes']."<B>Fatal Error</B> (".__LINE__.") - Couldn't connect to MySQL server on '$sqlHost'.<BR><BR>This shortcode uses Database #$db_in. If this is correct, then see the <B>Warning</B> above. One or more of the following settings for Database #$db_in is probably not correct.<OL style='background-color: white;'><LI> Database host: '$sqlHost'.<LI> Database user: '$sqlUser'.<LI> Database user password: '$sqlPass'.</OL></font>.");

And add:

// We want UTF8.
mysql_set_charset("UTF8", $abase_conn);

Before this part:

$db = mysql_select_db($sqlDatabase, $abase_conn) or die("<font style='color: $error_color; background-color: white;'>".$GLOBALS['bus311mtd_page_shortcodes']."<B>Fatal Error</B> (".__LINE__.") - Couldn't select database '$sqlDatabase'.<BR>" . mysql_error() . "<BR><font style='color: $error_color; background-color: white;'><BR>This shortcode uses Database #$db_in. If this is correct, then one or more of the following settings for Database #$db_in is probably not correct.<OL style='background-color: white;'><LI> Database name: '$sqlDatabase'.<LI> Database '$sqlDatabase' must be accessible by user '$sqlUser'.</OL></font>");