(PHP 5, PHP 7)
mysqli::character_set_name -- mysqli_character_set_name — Returns the default character set for the database connection
Object oriented style
public mysqli::character_set_name ( ) : string
Procedural style
mysqli_character_set_name ( mysqli $link ) : string
Returns the current character set for the database connection.
link
Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
The default character set for the current connection
Example #1 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
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