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PHP mysqli_set_charset () function

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Set the default client character set:

<?php 
// 假定数据库用户名:root,密码:123456,数据库:w3big 
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","123456","w3big"); 
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con)) 
{ 
    echo "连接 MySQL 失败: " . mysqli_connect_error(); 
} 

// 修改数据库连接字符集为 utf8
mysqli_set_charset($con,"utf8");

mysqli_close($con);
?>

Such operations in the Chinese characters is very useful for a lot of database query problem cases are garbled character set.


Definition and Usage

mysqli_set_charset () function is the default character set specified when the data transfer to the database server to use.

Note: Use this function on Windows platforms, you need MySQL client library version 4.1.11 or above (MySQL 5.0 requires 5.0.6 or later).


grammar

mysqli_set_charset( connection,charset ) ;

参数 描述
connection 必需。规定要使用的 MySQL 连接。
charset 必需。规定默认字符集。

technical details

return value: If successful it returns TRUE, on failure returns FALSE.
PHP version: 5.0.5+


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