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<h1 class="refname">sybase_fetch_field</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">sybase_fetch_field</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get field information from a result</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.sybase-fetch-field-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">object</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>sybase_fetch_field</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$result</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$field_offset</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>sybase_fetch_field()</strong></span> can be used in order to
obtain information about fields in a certain query result.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.sybase-fetch-field-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">
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">field_offset</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
If the field offset isn't specified, the next field that wasn't yet
retrieved by <span class="function"><strong>sybase_fetch_field()</strong></span> is retrieved.
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</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
</p>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.sybase-fetch-field-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns an object containing field information.
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<p class="para">
The properties of the object are:
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<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
name - column name. if the column is a result of a function, this
property is set to computed#N, where #N is a serial number.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
column_source - the table from which the column was taken
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
max_length - maximum length of the column
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
numeric - 1 if the column is numeric
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
type - datatype of the column
</span>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.sybase-fetch-field-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.sybase-field-seek.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">sybase_field_seek()</a> - Sets field offset</span></li>
</ul>
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