diff --git a/reference/mysqli/mysqli/get-charset.xml b/reference/mysqli/mysqli/get-charset.xml
index da2b228ba0..fd57f11015 100644
--- a/reference/mysqli/mysqli/get-charset.xml
+++ b/reference/mysqli/mysqli/get-charset.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 <?php
   $db = mysqli_init();
   mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
-  var_dump($db->get_charset());
+  var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($db));
 ?>
 ]]>
    </programlisting>