<!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>Gets the number of fields in result</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.mssql-next-result.html">mssql_next_result</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.mssql-num-rows.html">mssql_num_rows</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.mssql.html">Mssql Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.mssql-num-fields" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">mssql_num_fields</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5, PECL odbtp >= 1.1.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mssql_num_fields</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the number of fields in result</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.mssql-num-fields-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mssql_num_fields</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$result</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> <span class="function"><strong>mssql_num_fields()</strong></span> returns the number of fields in a result set. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.mssql-num-fields-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">result</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-query.html" class="function">mssql_query()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mssql-num-fields-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the number of fields, as an integer. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.mssql-num-fields-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-1545"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>mssql_num_fields()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Connect to MSSQL and select the database<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_connect</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'KALLESPC\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">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Select some data from our database<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_query</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SELECT [name], [age] FROM [php].[dbo].[persons]'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Construct a table<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<table border="1">'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$header </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">false</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Iterate through returned results<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">while (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$row </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_fetch_array</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Build the table header<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">if (!</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$header</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<thead>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<tr>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /> for (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$i </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">; (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$i </span><span style="color: #007700">+ </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">) <= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_num_fields</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">); ++</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$i</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<td>' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ucfirst</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$row</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$i</span><span style="color: #007700">]) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</td>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> }<br /><br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</tr>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</thead>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<tbody>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$header </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> }<br /><br /> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Build the row<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<tr>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /> foreach(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$row </span><span style="color: #007700">as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<td>' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</td>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /> }<br /><br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</tr>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Close table<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</tbody>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'</table>'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Clean up<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_free_result</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">mssql_close</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$link</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.mssql-num-fields-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-query.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mssql_query()</a> - Send MS SQL query</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-fetch-field.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mssql_fetch_field()</a> - Get field information</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mssql-num-rows.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mssql_num_rows()</a> - Gets the number of rows in result</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; 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