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# mysqli_fetch_fields

(PHP 5)

mysqli_fetch_fields

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

result->fetch_fields -- Returns an array of objects representing the fields in a result set

## Description

Procedural Style:

array mysqli_fetch_fields ( mysqli_result result )

Object oriented style (method):

class mysqli_result {
array fetch_fields ( void )
}

This function serves an identical purpose to the mysqli_fetch_field() function with the single difference that, instead of returning one object at a time for each field, the columns are returned as an array of objects.

## Return Values

Returns an array of objects which contains field definition information or `FALSE` if no field information is available.

Table 1. Object properties

Property | 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.
length | The width of the field, as specified in the table definition.
charsetnr | The character set number for the field.
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)

## See Also

mysqli_num_fields(), mysqli_fetch_field() and mysqli_fetch_field_direct().

## Examples

Example 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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
/* Get field information for all columns */
$finfo = $result->fetch_fields();
foreach ($finfo as $val) {
printf("Name: %s\n", $val->name);
printf("Table: %s\n", $val->table);
printf("max. Len: %d\n", $val->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d\n", $val->flags);
printf("Type: %d\n\n", $val->type);
}
$result->close();
}
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>`

Example 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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query)) {
/* Get field information for all columns */
$finfo = mysqli_fetch_fields($result);
foreach ($finfo as $val) {
printf("Name: %s\n", $val->name);
printf("Table: %s\n", $val->table);
printf("max. Len: %d\n", $val->max_length);
printf("Flags: %d\n", $val->flags);
printf("Type: %d\n\n", $val->type);
}
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>`

The above example will output:

    Name:     Name
    Table:    Country
    max. Len: 11
    Flags:    1
    Type:     254

    Name:     SurfaceArea
    Table:    Country
    max. Len: 10
    Flags:    32769
    Type:     4

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