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PHP mysqli_get_charset() Function

PHP mysqli_get_charset() function returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.

Syntax

object mysqli_get_charset(connection);

mysqli_get_charset() Function Parameter

Parameter	Description
Connection :	Required parameter. The MySQL connection to be used.

mysqli_get_charset() Function Return Value

Return Values :

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 - min character length in bytes max_length - max character length in bytes number - internal character set number state - character set status

mysqli_get_charset() Function Example

<?php $con = mysqli_get_charset("localhost","user","password","db"); if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error(); } var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($con)); mysqli_close($con); ?>

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