<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ob_iconv_handler</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="iconv functions" HREF="ref.iconv.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="iconv" HREF="function.iconv.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Image functions" HREF="ref.image.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.iconv.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.image.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ob-iconv-handler" ></A >ob_iconv_handler</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN33446" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.5)</P >ob_iconv_handler -- Convert character encoding as output buffer handler</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN33449" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >ob_iconv_handler</B > ( string contents, int status)<BR ></BR ><P > It converts the string encoded in <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >internal_encoding</I ></TT > to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >output_encoding</I ></TT >. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >internal_encoding</I ></TT > and <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >output_encoding</I ></TT > should be defined by <A HREF="function.iconv-set-encoding.html" ><B CLASS="function" >iconv_set_encoding()</B ></A > or in the configuration file <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN33469" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >ob_iconv_handler()</B > example:</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >ob_start("ob_iconv_handler"); // start output buffering</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.iconv-get-encoding.html" ><B CLASS="function" >iconv_get_encoding()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.iconv-set-encoding.html" ><B CLASS="function" >iconv_set_encoding()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="ref.outcontrol.html" >output-control functions</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.iconv.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.image.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >iconv</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.iconv.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Image functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >