mysqli_set_charset
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0RC1)
mysqli_set_charset
(no version information, might be only in CVS)
mysqli->set_charset -- Sets the default client character set
Description
bool
mysqli_set_charset ( mysqli link, string charset )
The mysqli_set_charset() function sets the default
character set (specified by the charset parameter) to be
used when sending data from and to the database server
represented by the link parameter.
Note:
To use this function on a Windows platform you need MySQL client library version 4.1.11
or above (for MySQL 5.0 you need 5.0.6 or above)
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example 1. Object oriented style
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
/* change character set to utf8 */
if (!$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")) {
printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
} else {
printf("Current character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());
}
$mysqli->close();
?>
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Example 2. Procedural style
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'my_user', 'my_password', 'test');
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
/* change character set to utf8 */
if (!mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8")) {
printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", mysqli_error($link));
} else {
printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link));
}
mysqli_close($link);
?>
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The above example will output:
Current character set: utf8 |