mysqli::get_charset

mysqli_get_charset

Returns a character set object

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public ``object``null```mysqli::get_charset`

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``object``null```mysqli_get_charset` `mysqli` `mysql`

Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.

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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 (?)

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### `mysqli::get_charset` example

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    <?php
      $db = mysqli_init();
      $db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test");
      var_dump($db->get_charset());
    ?>

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    <?php
      $db = mysqli_init();
      mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
      var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($db));
    ?>

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    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)
    }

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- `mysqli_character_set_name`
- `mysqli_set_charset`