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mysqli::get_charset
mysqli_get_charset
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object
Description
object mysqli::get_charset
( void
)
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) }
