Sets the default client character set (original) (raw)

<?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(); }printf("Initial character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());/* change character set to utf8 */ if (!$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")) { printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $mysqli->error); exit(); } else { printf("Current character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name()); }$mysqli->close(); ?>

<?php $link = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'my_user', 'my_password', 'test');/* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); }printf("Initial character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link));/* change character set to utf8 */ if (!mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8")) { printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", mysqli_error($link)); exit(); } else { printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link)); }mysqli_close($link); ?>

Initial character set: latin1 Current character set: utf8