PHP mysqli_stmt_result_metadata function

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mysqli_stmt_result_metadata

(PHP 5)

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

Procedural style:

Object oriented style (method):

If a statement passed to mysqli_prepare() is one that produces
a result set, mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() returns the result object
that can be used to process the meta information such as total number of fields
and individual field information.

Note: This result set pointer can be passed as an argument to any of the
field-based functions that process result set metadata, such as:

mysqli_num_fields()

mysqli_fetch_field()

mysqli_fetch_field_direct()

mysqli_fetch_fields()

mysqli_field_count()

mysqli_field_seek()

mysqli_field_tell()

mysqli_free_result()

The result set structure should be freed when you are done with it,
which you can do by passing it to mysqli_free_result()

Note:
The result set returned by mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() contains only
metadata. It does not contain any row results. The rows are obtained by using the
statement handle with mysqli_stmt_fetch().

Procedural style only: A statement identifier
returned by mysqli_stmt_init().

Returns a result object or FALSE if an error occured.

Example 1. Object oriented style

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
 
$mysqli->query("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
$mysqli->query("CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");
 
$mysqli->query("INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
 
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT id, name FROM friends");
$stmt->execute();
 
/* get resultset for metadata */
$result = $stmt->result_metadata();
 
/* retrieve field information from metadata result set */
$field = $result->fetch_field();
 
printf("Fieldname: %s\n", $field->name);
 
/* close resultset */
$result->close();
 
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();

Example 2. Procedural style

$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
 
mysqli_query($link, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");
 
mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
 
$stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, "SELECT id, name FROM friends");
mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
 
/* get resultset for metadata */
$result = mysqli_stmt_result_metadata($stmt);
 
/* retrieve field information from metadata result set */
$field = mysqli_fetch_field($result);
 
printf("Fieldname: %s\n", $field->name);
 
/* close resultset */
mysqli_free_result($result);
 
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);