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mysqli::get_charset

mysqli_get_charset

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)

mysqli::get_charset -- mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object

Description

object mysqli::get_charset ( void )
object mysqli_get_charset ( mysqli $link )

Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active characer set.

Parameters

link

Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()

Return Values

The function returns a character set object with the following properties:

charset

Character set name

collation

Collation name

dir

Directory the charset description was fetched from (?) or "" for builtin character sets

min_length

Minimum character lenght in bytes

max_length

Maximum character length in bytes

number

Internal character set number

state

Characer set status (?)

Examples

Example #1 Object oriented style

<?php
  $db = mysqli_init();
  $db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test");
  var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>

Example #2 Procedural style

<?php
  $db = mysqli_init();
  mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
  var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>

The above example will output:

object(stdClass)#2 (7) {
  ["charset"]=>
  string(6) "latin1"
  ["collation"]=>
  string(17) "latin1_swedish_ci"
  ["dir"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["min_length"]=>
  int(1)
  ["max_length"]=>
  int(1)
  ["number"]=>
  int(8)
  ["state"]=>
  int(801)
}

See Also

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