<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Get the type of a field in a query result</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ingres-field-scale.html">ingres_field_scale</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ingres-free-result.html">ingres_free_result</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ingres.html">Ingres Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.ingres-field-type" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ingres_field_type</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5 <= 5.0.5, PECL ingres >= 1.0.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ingres_field_type</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get the type of a field in a query result</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ingres-field-type-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ingres_field_type</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$result</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$index</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Get the type of a field in a query result. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <strong>Related Configurations</strong><br /> <p class="para"> See <a href="ingres.configuration.html#ini.ingres.array-index-start" class="link">ingres.array_index_start</a> in <a href="ingres.configuration.html" class="link">Runtime Configuration</a> </p> </p></blockquote> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ingres-field-type-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">result</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The query result identifier </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">index</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> <em><code class="parameter">index</code></em> is the field whose type will be retrieved. </p> <p class="para"> The possible values of <em><code class="parameter">index</code></em> depend upon the value of <a href="ingres.configuration.html#ini.ingres.array-index-start" class="link">ingres.array_index_start</a>. If <a href="ingres.configuration.html#ini.ingres.array-index-start" class="link">ingres.array_index_start</a> is <em>1</em> (the default) then <em><code class="parameter">index</code></em> must be between <em>1</em> and the value returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-num-fields.html" class="function">ingres_num_fields()</a></span>. If <a href="ingres.configuration.html#ini.ingres.array-index-start" class="link">ingres.array_index_start</a> is <em>0</em> then <em><code class="parameter">index</code></em> must be between <em>0</em> and <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-num-fields.html" class="function">ingres_num_fields()</a></span><em> - 1</em>. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ingres-field-type-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> <span class="function"><strong>ingres_field_type()</strong></span> returns the type of a field in a query result or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. Examples of types returned are <em>IIAPI_BYTE_TYPE</em>, <em>IIAPI_CHA_TYPE</em>, <em>IIAPI_DTE_TYPE</em>, <em>IIAPI_FLT_TYPE</em>, <em>IIAPI_INT_TYPE</em>, <em>IIAPI_VCH_TYPE</em>. Some of these types can map to more than one SQL type depending on the length of the field (see <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-field-length.html" class="function">ingres_field_length()</a></span>). For example IIAPI_FLT_TYPE can be a float4 or a float8. For detailed information, see the Ingres <em>OpenAPI User Guide</em>, Appendix "Data Types" in the Ingres documentation. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ingres-field-type-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-query.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_query()</a> - Send an SQL query to Ingres</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-fetch-array.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_fetch_array()</a> - Fetch a row of result into an array</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-fetch-assoc.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_fetch_assoc()</a> - Fetch a row of result into an associative array</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-fetch-object.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_fetch_object()</a> - Fetch a row of result into an object</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ingres-fetch-row.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ingres_fetch_row()</a> - Fetch a row of result into an enumerated array</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ingres-field-scale.html">ingres_field_scale</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ingres-free-result.html">ingres_free_result</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ingres.html">Ingres Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>