mysql - Column type to store code

Question

I need to store a snippet of HTML/PHP code in my table. I am using BLOB, but am not sure what is best to use, ASCII or UTF-8. What's the difference? Or shall I use TEXT altogether?

Answer 1

You should use TEXT and set your whole set of tools to use UTF-8 only : your base, this column, but also HTML/PHP files (check your text editor and the headers), connections, and so on.

Today, except when you have to connect to specific (and old) databases, using UTF-8 everywhere is almost the sole sane choice.

Read this : http://www.utf8everywhere.org/

Answer 2

BLOB 是 varbinary，就像 TEXT 是 varchar。

本质上将二进制数据存储在 BLOB 中，并将文本存储在 TEXT 中。如果要存储实际的 html 代码，则使用 TEXT，如果要存储 html 文件，则使用 BLOB。

如果您需要能够执行 ORDER BY 或 LIKE 之类的操作，则不能使用 BLOB。

Answer 3

TEXT当您要使用该字段的某种搜索功能（FULLTEXT）时，最好使用它。

BLOB更适合存储 HTML 页面等数据和存储不会被搜索（FULLTEXT、LIKE）但只是加载的数据。