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pg_client_encoding

(PHP 3 CVS only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5)

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 connection is 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

pg_client_encoding

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