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PHP MySQL Functions to get the Field type from a result set
mysql_field_type function will return the type of field associated with the field. Different field types are varchar, char, int, blob, text, datetime etc… This command takes one result set as input along with a field identifier or an offset. It returns a string holding field type details.
Here is the command.
string mysql_field_type(int result, int field_offset)
We will try to develop one script using our student table to display the field types of all the fields.
<?
$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM student");
$no_of_fields = mysql_num_fields ($result);
$no_of_records = mysql_num_rows ($result);
$i = 0;
$table_name = mysql_field_table ($result, $i);
echo "Your '".$table_name."' table has ".$no_of_fields";
echo " fields and ".$no_of_records." records <BR>";
echo "The table has the following fields <BR>";
while ($i < $no_of_fields) {
// name of the field mysql_field_name
$name = mysql_field_name ($result, $i);
echo "Field name:<b>$name</b><br>";
// Field type field mysql_field_type
$type = mysql_field_type ($result, $i);
echo "Field type:$type<br>";
$i++;
}
?>
The above code will display the field type with the fields of the student table.
The result of the above script is here
Your ’student’ table has 4 fields and 52 records
The table has the following fields
Field name:id
Field type:int
Field name:name
Field type:string
Field name:class
Field type:string
Field name:mark
Field type:int
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