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.

Table 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

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 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();

?>

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 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);

?>

The above examples would produce the following output:

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

mysqli_fetch_field_direct

Description

Return values

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