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mysqli_set_charset

mysqli->set_charset

(PHP 5 >= 5.0.5)

mysqli->set_charset — Sets the default client character set

Description

Procedural style:

bool mysqli_set_charset ( mysqli $link , string $charset )

Object oriented style (method):

mysqli
bool set_charset ( string $charset )

Sets the default character set to be used when sending data from and to the database server.

Parameters

link

Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()

charset

The charset to be set as default.

Return Values

Geeft TRUE terug bij succes, FALSE indien er een fout is opgetreden.

Notes

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). It can be downloaded at » https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/.

Voorbeelden

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();
?>

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);
?>

Het resultaat van dit script is als volgt:

Current character set: utf8