(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Returns the name of a field
string pg_field_name ( resource $result, int $field_number )
pg_field_name() returns the name of the field occupying the given field_number
in the given PostgreSQL result
resource. Field numbering starts from 0.
Note:
This function used to be called pg_fieldname().
Parameters:
result
PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(), pg_query_params() or pg_execute() (among others).
field_number
Field number, starting from 0.
Returns:
The field name, or FALSE
on error.
Examples:
Getting information about fields
<?php $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect"); $res = pg_query($dbconn, "select * from authors where author = 'Orwell'"); $i = pg_num_fields($res); for ($j = 0; $j < $i; $j++) { echo "column $j\n"; $fieldname = pg_field_name($res, $j); echo "fieldname: $fieldname\n"; echo "printed length: " . pg_field_prtlen($res, $fieldname) . " characters\n"; echo "storage length: " . pg_field_size($res, $j) . " bytes\n"; echo "field type: " . pg_field_type($res, $j) . " \n\n"; } ?>
The above example will output:
column 0 fieldname: author printed length: 6 characters storage length: -1 bytes field type: varchar column 1 fieldname: year printed length: 4 characters storage length: 2 bytes field type: int2 column 2 fieldname: title printed length: 24 characters storage length: -1 bytes field type: varchar
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