Php/docs/function.pg-client-encoding
pg_client_encoding
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5, PHP 7)
pg_client_encoding — Gets the client encoding
Description
pg_client_encoding
([ resource $connection
] ) : string
PostgreSQL supports automatic character set conversion between server and client for certain character sets. pg_client_encoding() returns the client encoding as a string. The returned string will be one of the standard PostgreSQL encoding identifiers.
Note:
This function requires PHP 4.0.3 or higher and PostgreSQL 7.0 or higher. If libpq is compiled without multibyte encoding support, pg_client_encoding() always returns
SQL_ASCII. Supported encoding depends on PostgreSQL version. Refer to the PostgreSQL Documentation supported encodings.The function used to be called pg_clientencoding().
Parameters
connection- PostgreSQL database connection resource. When
connectionis not present, the default connection is used. The default connection is the last connection made by pg_connect() or pg_pconnect().
Return Values
The client encoding, or FALSE on error.
Examples
Example #1 pg_client_encoding() example
<?php// Assume $conn is a connection to a ISO-8859-1 database$encoding = pg_client_encoding($conn);echo "Client encoding is: ", $encoding, "\n";?>
The above example will output:
Client encoding is: ISO-8859-1
