<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_fetch_field</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_fetch_assoc" HREF="function.mysql-fetch-assoc.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_fetch_lengths" HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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-fetch-assoc.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-fetch-field" ></A >mysql_fetch_field</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN58692" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_fetch_field -- Get column information from a result and return as an object </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN58695" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >object <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_fetch_field</B > ( resource result [, int field_offset])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns an object containing field information. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_field()</B > can be used in order to obtain information about fields in a certain query result. If the field offset isn't specified, the next field that wasn't yet retrieved by <B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_field()</B > is retrieved. </P ><P > The properties of the object are: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > name - column name </P ></LI ><LI ><P > table - name of the table the column belongs to </P ></LI ><LI ><P > max_length - maximum length of the column </P ></LI ><LI ><P > not_null - 1 if the column cannot be <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >NULL</B ></TT > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > primary_key - 1 if the column is a primary key </P ></LI ><LI ><P > unique_key - 1 if the column is a unique key </P ></LI ><LI ><P > multiple_key - 1 if the column is a non-unique key </P ></LI ><LI ><P > numeric - 1 if the column is numeric </P ></LI ><LI ><P > blob - 1 if the column is a BLOB </P ></LI ><LI ><P > type - the type of the column </P ></LI ><LI ><P > unsigned - 1 if the column is unsigned </P ></LI ><LI ><P > zerofill - 1 if the column is zero-filled </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN58737" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_field()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php mysql_connect('localhost:3306', $user, $password) or die("Could not connect: " . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("database"); $result = mysql_query("select * from table") or die("Query failed: " . mysql_error()); /* get column metadata */ $i = 0; while ($i < mysql_num_fields($result)) { echo "Information for column $i:<br />\n"; $meta = mysql_fetch_field($result); if (!$meta) { echo "No information available<br />\n"; } echo "<pre> blob: $meta->blob max_length: $meta->max_length multiple_key: $meta->multiple_key name: $meta->name not_null: $meta->not_null numeric: $meta->numeric primary_key: $meta->primary_key table: $meta->table type: $meta->type unique_key: $meta->unique_key unsigned: $meta->unsigned zerofill: $meta->zerofill </pre>"; $i++; } mysql_free_result($result); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="function.mysql-field-seek.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_field_seek()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-assoc.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_fetch_assoc</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_fetch_lengths</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >