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<h1 class="refname">mssql_field_type</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5, PECL odbtp >= 1.1.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mssql_field_type</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the type of a field</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.mssql-field-type-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mssql_field_type</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$result</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$offset</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Returns the type of field no. <em><code class="parameter">offset</code></em> in
<em><code class="parameter">result</code></em>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.mssql-field-type-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">result</code></em></span>
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The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a
call to <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-query.html" class="function">mssql_query()</a></span>.
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</dd>
</dt>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">offset</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The field offset, starts at 0. If omitted, the current field is used.
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</dd>
</dt>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mssql-field-type-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
The type of the specified field index on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.mssql-field-type-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>mssql_field_type()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Connect to MSSQL and select the database<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_connect</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'MANGO\SQLEXPRESS'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'sa'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'phpfi'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_select_db</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'php'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Send a select query to MSSQL<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_query</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SELECT [name] FROM [php].[dbo].[persons]'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Print the field type and length<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'\'' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_field_name</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'\' is a type of ' </span><span style="color: #007700">. <br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">strtoupper</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_field_type</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">)) . <br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'(' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_field_length</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">')'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Free the query result<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_free_result</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
'name' is a type of CHAR(50)
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.mssql-field-type-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-field-length.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mssql_field_length()</a> - Get the length of a field</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-field-name.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mssql_field_name()</a> - Get the name of a field</span></li>
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