(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Get column information from a result and return as an object
object fbsql_fetch_field ( resource $result [, int $field_offset ] )
Used in order to obtain information about fields in a certain query result.
Parameters:
result
A result identifier returned by fbsql_query() or fbsql_db_query().
field_offset
The numerical offset of the field. The field index starts at 0. If not specified, the next field that wasn't yet retrieved by fbsql_fetch_field() is retrieved.
Returns:
Returns an object containing field information, or FALSE
on errors.
The properties of the object are:
- name - column name
- table - name of the table the column belongs to
- max_length - maximum length of the column
- not_null - 1 if the column cannot be
NULL
- type - the type of the column
Examples:
fbsql_fetch_field() example
<?php fbsql_connect($host, $user, $password) or die("Could not connect"); $result = fbsql_db_query("database", "select * from table") or die("Query failed"); # get column metadata $i = 0; while ($i < fbsql_num_fields($result)) { echo "Information for column $i:<br />\n"; $meta = fbsql_fetch_field($result); if (!$meta) { echo "No information available<br />\n"; } echo "<pre> max_length: $meta->max_length name: $meta->name not_null: $meta->not_null table: $meta->table type: $meta->type </pre>"; $i++; } fbsql_free_result($result); ?>
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