mysqli_result::fetch_field_direct
PHP function
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(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Fetch meta-data for a single field
Description
Oop
mysqli_result::fetch_field_direct(int $index): object|false
Procedural
mysqli_fetch_field_direct(mysqli_result $result, int $index): object|false
Returns an object which contains field definition information from the specified result set.
Parameters
indexThe field number. This value must be in the range from
0tonumber of fields - 1.
Return Values
Returns an object which contains field definition information or false if no field information for specified index 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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Name LIMIT 5";
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
/* Get field information for column 'SurfaceArea' */
$finfo = $result->fetch_field_direct(1);
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", $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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Name LIMIT 5";
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query)) {
/* Get field information for column 'SurfaceArea' */
$finfo = mysqli_fetch_field_direct($result, 1);
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", $finfo->type);
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>Outputs
output
Name: SurfaceArea
Table: Country
max. Len: 10
Flags: 32769
Type: 4