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mysqli_set_charset

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mysqli_set_charset

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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.

See Also

mysqli_character_set_name() and mysqli_real_escape_string().

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", $mysql->error);
} else {
    printf("Current character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());
}

$mysqli->close();
?>

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);
?>

The above example will output:

Current character set: utf8
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