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mysqli::get_charset
mysqli_get_charset
Returns a character set object
Description
Object-oriented style
public object|null mysqli::get_charset();
Procedural style
object|null mysqli_get_charset(mysqli mysql);
Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.
Parameters
-
mysql
Procedural style only: A
mysqli
object returned bymysqli_connect
ormysqli_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
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number
Internal character set number
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state
Character set status (?)
Examples
Example 7.52 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
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mysqli_set_charset
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