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mysqli_result::fetch_field - Returns the next field in the result set
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
object mysqli_result::fetch_field (void )
DESCRIPTION
Procedural style
object mysqli_fetch_field (mysqli_result $result)
Returns the definition of one column of a result set as an object. Call this function repeatedly to retrieve information about all columns
in the result set.
PARAMETERS
o $
result -Procedural style only: A result set identifier returned by mysqli_query(3), mysqli_store_result(3) or
mysqli_use_result(3).
RETURN VALUES
Returns an object which contains field definition information or FALSE if no field information is available.
Object properties
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Property | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------+
| name | |
| | |
| | The name of the column |
| | |
| orgname | |
| | |
| | Original column name if an alias was specified |
| | |
| table | |
| | |
| | The name of the table this field belongs to (if |
| | not calculated) |
| | |
| orgtable | |
| | |
| | Original table name if an alias was specified |
| | |
| def | |
| | |
| | Reserved for default value, currently always "" |
| | |
| db | |
| | |
| | Database (since PHP 5.3.6) |
| | |
| catalog | |
| | |
| | The catalog name, always "def" (since PHP 5.3.6) |
| | |
|max_length | |
| | |
| | The maximum width of the field for the result |
| | set. |
| | |
| length | |
| | |
| | The width of the field, as specified in the table |
| | definition. |
| | |
|charsetnr | |
| | |
| | The character set number for the field. |
| | |
| flags | |
| | |
| | An integer representing the bit-flags for the |
| | field. |
| | |
| type | |
| | |
| | The data type used for this field |
| | |
| decimals | |
| | |
| | The number of decimals used (for integer fields) |
| | |
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Object oriented style
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s
", 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()) {
printf("Name: %s
", $finfo->name);
printf("Table: %s
", $finfo->table);
printf("max. Len: %d
", $finfo->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d
", $finfo->flags);
printf("Type: %d
", $finfo->type);
}
$result->close();
}
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>
Example #2
Procedural style
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s
", 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)) {
printf("Name: %s
", $finfo->name);
printf("Table: %s
", $finfo->table);
printf("max. Len: %d
", $finfo->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d
", $finfo->flags);
printf("Type: %d
", $finfo->type);
}
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>
The above examples will output:
Name: Name
Table: Country
max. Len: 11
Flags: 1
Type: 254
Name: SurfaceArea
Table: Country
max. Len: 10
Flags: 32769
Type: 4
SEE ALSO
mysqli_num_fields(3), mysqli_fetch_field_direct(3), mysqli_fetch_fields(3), mysqli_field_seek(3).
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