(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
mysqli::get_charset -- mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object
Object oriented style
Procedural style
Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.
linkProcedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
The function returns a character set object with the following properties:
charsetCharacter set name
collationCollation name
dirDirectory the charset description was fetched from (?) or "" for built-in character sets
min_lengthMinimum character length in bytes
max_lengthMaximum character length in bytes
numberInternal character set number
stateCharacter set status (?)
Example #1 mysqli::get_charset() example
Object oriented style
<?php
  $db = mysqli_init();
  $db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test");
  var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>
Procedural style
<?php
  $db = mysqli_init();
  mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
  var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($db));
?>
The above examples will output:
object(stdClass)#2 (7) {
  ["charset"]=>
  string(6) "latin1"
  ["collation"]=>
  string(17) "latin1_swedish_ci"
  ["dir"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["min_length"]=>
  int(1)
  ["max_length"]=>
  int(1)
  ["number"]=>
  int(8)
  ["state"]=>
  int(801)
}