Establishing a MySQL connection using PHP 5 PDO driver

<?php

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
setlocale(LC_ALL, "ru_RU.UTF-8");

$user = "alex";
$password = "alex";
$port = 3306;
$host = "localhost";
$db_name = "encoding_test";
$pdo_options = array(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION, PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8");
$dsn = "mysql:host=".$host.";dbname=".$db_name.";charset=utf8";

try
{
    $db_connect = new PDO($dsn, $user, $password, $pdo_options);

    //insert data
    $some_utf8_data = "Нет, всё в порядке, никаких проблем нет. Работает!";
    $statement = $db_connect->prepare("INSERT INTO `utf8_table` (`info`) values(:my_inf_value)");
    $statement->bindParam(":my_inf_value", $some_utf8_data, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $statement->execute();

    //select some data
    $statement = $db_connect->prepare("SELECT * FROM `utf8_table`");
    $statement->execute();
    $results = $statement->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    print_r($results);
}
catch (PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: ".$e->getMessage();
}

?>