mysqli_result::$current_field

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Get current field offset of a result pointer

int mysqli_field_tell ( mysqli_result $result )

Object oriented style

int $mysqli_result->current_field ;

Procedural style

Returns the position of the field cursor used for the last mysqli_fetch_field() call. This value can be used as an argument to mysqli_field_seek().

Parameters:

result

Procedural style only: A result set identifier returned by mysqli_query(), mysqli_store_result() or mysqli_use_result().

Returns:

Returns current offset of field cursor.

Examples:

Object oriented style

<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
 
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}
 
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
 
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
 
    /* Get field information for all columns */
    while ($finfo = $result->fetch_field()) {
 
        /* get fieldpointer offset */
        $currentfield = $result->current_field;
 
        printf("Column %d:\n", $currentfield);
        printf("Name:     %s\n", $finfo->name);
        printf("Table:    %s\n", $finfo->table);
        printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
        printf("Flags:    %d\n", $finfo->flags);
        printf("Type:     %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
    }
    $result->close();
}
 
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Procedural style

<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
 
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}
 
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
 
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query)) {
 
    /* Get field information for all fields */
    while ($finfo = mysqli_fetch_field($result)) {
 
        /* get fieldpointer offset */
        $currentfield = mysqli_field_tell($result);
 
        printf("Column %d:\n", $currentfield);
        printf("Name:     %s\n", $finfo->name);
        printf("Table:    %s\n", $finfo->table);
        printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
        printf("Flags:    %d\n", $finfo->flags);
        printf("Type:     %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
    }
    mysqli_free_result($result);
}
 
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>

The above examples will output:

Column 1:
Name:     Name
Table:    Country
max. Len: 11
Flags:    1
Type:     254

Column 2:
Name:     SurfaceArea
Table:    Country
max. Len: 10
Flags:    32769
Type:     4