pg_client_encoding
pg_client_encoding
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5, PHP 7)
pg_client_encoding — Gets the client encoding
Description
string pg_client_encoding ([ resource $connection ] )
PostgreSQL supports automatic character set conversion between server and client for certain character sets. pg_client_encoding() returns the client encoding as a string. The returned string will be one of the standard PostgreSQL encoding identifiers.
Note:
This function requires PHP 4.0.3 or higher and PostgreSQL 7.0 or higher. If libpq is compiled without multibyte encoding support, pg_client_encoding() always returns SQL_ASCII. Supported encoding depends on PostgreSQL version. Refer to the PostgreSQL Documentation supported encodings.
The function used to be called pg_clientencoding().
Parameters
-
connection -
PostgreSQL database connection resource. When
connectionis not present, the default connection is used. The default connection is the last connection made by pg_connect() or pg_pconnect().
Return Values
The client encoding, or FALSE on error.
Examples
Example #1 pg_client_encoding() example
<?php // Assume $conn is a connection to a ISO-8859-1 database $encoding = pg_client_encoding($conn); echo "Client encoding is: ", $encoding, "\n"; ?>
The above example will output:
Client encoding is: ISO-8859-1
See Also
- pg_set_client_encoding() - Set the client encoding
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