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Name

ifx_fieldproperties — Returns an associative array if field properties

Synopsis

array ifx_fieldproperties(result); int result: Result handler

Returns

Array or FALSE on error

Description

Returns an associative array of the field properties of columns returned from the query. The array key is the column name. The value field is a string of semi-colon delimied properties which can be seperated using explode() . The delimited fields are field type, 'field length, field precision, field scale and field can contain null values respectively.

Version

Since version 3.0.3 and 4.0

Example

Example 564. Display field properties

function print_error($text) {
   echo "There was an error reported by the database.\n";
   echo "Error reported was: $text";
   die();
}

$conn = @ifx_connect(ifx_connect("stores7@demo_se", "testuser", "password"));

if (!$result = @ifx_query("SELECT * FROM items", $conn)) {
   print_error(ifx_errormsg());
   
} else {
   $properties = ifx_fieldproperties($result);
   print("<table border=1>");
   print("<tr>");
   print("<th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Length</th>");
   print("<th>Precision</th><th>Scale</th><th>Nullable</th>");
   print("</tr>");

   foreach($properties as $column=>$property) {
      list($type, $length, $precision, $scale, $nullable) = split(";",$property);
      print("<tr>");
      printf("<td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td>", $column, $type, $length);
      printf("<td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td>", $precision, $scale, $nullable);
      print("</tr>\n");
   }

   print"</table>";
}

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