<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_num_fields</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_list_tables" HREF="function.mysql-list-tables.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_num_rows" HREF="function.mysql-num-rows.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-list-tables.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-num-rows.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-num-fields" >mysql_num_fields</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18988" ></A >mysql_num_fields -- Get number of fields in result</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18991" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int mysql_num_fields</CODE >(int result);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_num_fields()</B > returns the number of fields in a result set. </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-db-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_db_query()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-field.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_field()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-num-rows.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_num_rows()</B ></A >.</P ><P > For downward compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql_numfields()</B > can also be used. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-list-tables.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-num-rows.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_list_tables</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_num_rows</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >