PostgreSQL Functions
PHP Manual

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

See Also

  • pg_set_client_encoding