PHP Reference

Description

Procedural style:

string mysqli_character_set_name ( object 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.

Example

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();

?>

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);

?>

The above examples would be produce the following output:

Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci

mysqli_character_set_name

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Return values

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