(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
mysqli::get_charset -- mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object
Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.
Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
The function returns a character set object with the following properties:
Character set name
Collation name
Directory the charset description was fetched from (?) or "" for built-in character sets
Minimum character length in bytes
Maximum character length in bytes
Internal character set number
Character set status (?)
Example #1 Object oriented style
<?php
$db = mysqli_init();
$db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test");
var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>
Example #2 Procedural style
<?php
$db = mysqli_init();
mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>
The above example 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)
}