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# mysqli_character_set_name

(PHP 5)

mysqli_character_set_name

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

mysqli->character_set_name -- Returns the default character set for the database connection

## Description

Procedural style:

string mysqli_character_set_name ( mysqli link )

Object oriented style (method):

class mysqli {
string character_set_name ( void )
}

Returns the current character set for the database connection specified by the link parameter.

## Return Values

The default character set for the current connection

## See Also

mysqli_client_encoding() and mysqli_real_escape_string().

## Examples

Example 1. 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(); ?>`

Example 2. 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 example will output:

    Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci

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