(PHP 4, PHP 5, PECL odbtp >= 1.1.1)
Gets the type of a field
string mssql_field_type ( resource $result [, int $offset = -1 ] )
Returns the type of field no. offset
in result
.
Parameters:
result
The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to mssql_query().
offset
The field offset, starts at 0. If omitted, the current field is used.
Returns:
The type of the specified field index on success or FALSE
on failure.
Examples:
mssql_field_type() example
<?php // Connect to MSSQL and select the database mssql_connect('MANGO\SQLEXPRESS', 'sa', 'phpfi'); mssql_select_db('php'); // Send a select query to MSSQL $query = mssql_query('SELECT [name] FROM [php].[dbo].[persons]'); // Print the field type and length echo '\'' . mssql_field_name($query, 0) . '\' is a type of ' . strtoupper(mssql_field_type($query, 0)) . '(' . mssql_field_length($query, 0) . ')'; // Free the query result mssql_free_result($query); ?>
The above example will output something similar to:
'name' is a type of CHAR(50)
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