mysqli_result::fetch_field
PHP function
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(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Returns the next field in the result set
Description
Oop
mysqli_result::fetch_field(): object|false
Procedural
mysqli_fetch_field(mysqli_result $result): object|false
Returns the definition of one column of a result set as an object. Call this function repeatedly to retrieve information about all columns in the result set.
Parameters
Return Values
Returns an object which contains field definition information or false if no field information is available.
Examples
Oop
php
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
/* Get field information for all columns */
while ($finfo = $result->fetch_field()) {
printf("Name: %s\n", $finfo->name);
printf("Table: %s\n", $finfo->table);
printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d\n", $finfo->flags);
printf("Type: %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
}
$result->close();
}
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>Procedural
php
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query)) {
/* Get field information for all fields */
while ($finfo = mysqli_fetch_field($result)) {
printf("Name: %s\n", $finfo->name);
printf("Table: %s\n", $finfo->table);
printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d\n", $finfo->flags);
printf("Type: %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
}
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>Outputs
output
Name: Name
Table: Country
max. Len: 11
Flags: 1
Type: 254
Name: SurfaceArea
Table: Country
max. Len: 10
Flags: 32769
Type: 4