mssql_field_type

(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)