mysqli::character_set_name
, mysqli_character_set_name
mysqli::character_set_name
mysqli_character_set_name
Returns the default character set for the database connection
Description
Object oriented stylestring mysqli::character_set_name();
Procedural stylestring mysqli_character_set_name(mysqli link);
Returns the current character set for the database connection.
Parameters
link
-
Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by
mysqli_connect
ormysqli_init
Return Values
The default character set for the current connection
Examples
Example 20.102. mysqli::character_set_name
example
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(); ?>
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); ?>
The above examples will output:
Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci
See Also
mysqli_client_encoding
|
mysqli_real_escape_string |