mysqli_character_set_name
(PHP 5)
mysqli_character_set_name
(no version information, might be only in CVS)
mysqli->character_set_name -- Returns the default character set for the database connection
Description
Procedural style:
string
mysqli_character_set_name ( mysqli link )
Object oriented style (method):
class
mysqli {
string
character_set_name ( void )
}
Returns the current character set for the database connection specified by the
link parameter.
Return Values
The default character set for the current connection
Examples
Example 1. Object oriented style
<?php /* Open a connection */ $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); }
/* Print current character set */ $charset = $mysqli->character_set_name(); printf ("Current character set is %s\n", $charset);
$mysqli->close(); ?>
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Example 2. Procedural style
<?php /* Open a connection */ $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); /* check connection */ if (!$link) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); }
/* Print current character set */ $charset = mysqli_character_set_name($link); printf ("Current character set is %s\n",$charset);
/* close connection */ mysqli_close($link); ?>
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The above example will output:
Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci |