Php/docs/mysqli.get-charset
mysqli::get_charset
mysqli_get_charset
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)
mysqli::get_charset -- mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object
Description
Object oriented style
public mysqli::get_charset ( ) : object
Procedural style
mysqli_get_charset
( mysqli $link
) : object
Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character 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 built-in character sets
min_length
- Minimum character length in bytes
max_length
- Maximum character length in bytes
number
- Internal character set number
state
- Character set status (?)
Examples
Example #1 mysqli::get_charset() example
Object oriented style
<?php $db = mysqli_init(); $db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test"); var_dump($db->get_charset());?>
Procedural style
<?php $db = mysqli_init(); mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test"); var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($db));?>
The above examples 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
- mysqli_character_set_name() - Returns the default character set for the database connection
- mysqli_set_charset() - Sets the default client character set