//Connect
$mysqli = new mysqli($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dbname);
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
	printf("MySQLi connection failed: ", mysqli_connect_error());
	exit();
}

// Change character set to utf8
if (!$mysqli->set_charset('utf8')) {
	printf('Error loading character set utf8: %s\n', $mysqli->error);
}