mysqli_fetch_field_direct
    (PHP 5)
mysqli_fetch_field_direct
    (no version information, might be only in CVS)
result->fetch_field_direct -- 
     Fetch meta-data for a single field
    
Description
Procedural style:
mixed 
mysqli_fetch_field_direct ( object result, int fieldnr)
Object oriented style (method):
class 
result { 
mixed 
fetch_field_direct ( int fieldnr)
}
     mysqli_fetch_field_direct() returns an object which contains 
     field definition informations from specified resultset. The value of fieldnr must be in the 
     range from 0 to number of fields - 1.
    
Return values
     Returns an object which contains field definition informations or FALSE if no field information
     for specified fieldnr is available.
    
    
Tabelle 1. Object attributes
| Attribute | Description | 
|---|
| name | The name of the column | 
| orgname | Original column name if an alias was specified | 
| table | The name of the table this field belongs to (if not calculated) | 
| orgtable | Original table name if an alias was specified | 
| def | The default value for this field, represented as a string | 
| max_length | The maximum width of the field for the result set. | 
| flags | An integer representing the bit-flags for the field. | 
| type | The data type used for this field | 
| decimals | The number of decimals used (for integer fields) | 
 
    Example
Beispiel 1. Object oriented style 
<?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(); ?>
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Beispiel 2. Procedural style 
<?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); ?>
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     The above examples would produce the following output:
    
Name:     SurfaceArea
Table:    Country
max. Len: 10
Flags:    32769
Type:     4  |