PHP mysqli_fetch_fields() Function

Definition and Usage

A PHP result object (of the class mysqli_result) represents the MySQL result, returned by the SELECT or, DESCRIBE or, EXPLAIN queries.

The mysqli_fetch_fields() function accepts a result object as a parameter and returns an array of objects each representing a field in the result.

Syntax

mysqli_fetch_fields($result);

Parameters

Return Values

The PHP mysqli_fetch_fields() function returns an array of object where each object contains definition information of a field in the given result. This function returns FALSE in case of no information.

The objects of the returned array contains following properties $minus;

• name

• orgname

• table

• orgtable

• max_length

• length

• charsetnr

• flags

• type

• decimals

PHP Version

This function was first introduced in PHP Version 5 and works works in all the later versions.

Example

Following example demonstrates the usage of the mysqli_fetch_fields() function (in procedural style) −

<?php
   $con = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "password", "mydb");

   mysqli_query($con, "CREATE TABLE myplayers(ID INT, First_Name VARCHAR(255), Last_Name VARCHAR(255), Place_Of_Birth VARCHAR(255), Country VARCHAR(255))");
   print("Table Created.....\n");
   mysqli_query($con, "INSERT INTO myplayers values(1, 'Sikhar', 'Dhawan', 'Delhi', 'India')");
   mysqli_query($con, "INSERT INTO myplayers values(2, 'Jonathan', 'Trott', 'CapeTown', 'SouthAfrica')");
   mysqli_query($con, "INSERT INTO myplayers values(3, 'Kumara', 'Sangakkara', 'Matale', 'Srilanka')");
   print("Record Inserted.....\n");

   //Retrieving the contents of the table
   $res = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT * FROM myplayers");

   //Fetching all the fields
   $info = mysqli_fetch_fields($res);
   foreach ($info as $ele) {
      print("ID: ".$ele->name."\n");
      print("First_Name: ".$ele->table."\n");
      print("Last_Name: ".$ele->max_length."\n");
      print("Place_Of_Birth: ".$ele->charsetnr."\n");
      print("Country: ".$ele->flags."\n");
      print("Country: ".$ele->type."\n");
      print("\n");
   }
   //Closing the statement
   mysqli_free_result($res);

   //Closing the connection
   mysqli_close($con);
?>

This will produce following result −

Table Created.....
Record Inserted.....
ID: ID
First_Name: myplayers
Last_Name: 1
Place_Of_Birth: 63
Country: 32768
Country: 3

ID: First_Name
First_Name: myplayers
Last_Name: 8
Place_Of_Birth: 33
Country: 0
Country: 253

ID: Last_Name
First_Name: myplayers
Last_Name: 10
Place_Of_Birth: 33
Country: 0
Country: 253

ID: Place_Of_Birth
First_Name: myplayers
Last_Name: 8
Place_Of_Birth: 33
Country: 0
Country: 253

ID: Country
First_Name: myplayers
Last_Name: 11
Place_Of_Birth: 33
Country: 0
Country: 253

Example

In object oriented style the syntax of this function is $result->fetch_fields(); Following is the example of this function in object oriented style $minus;

<?php
   //Creating a connection
   $con = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "password", "mydb");
 
   $con -> query("CREATE TABLE Test(Name VARCHAR(255), Age INT)");
   $con -> query("insert into Test values('Raju', 25),('Rahman', 30),('Sarmista', 27)");
   print("Table Created.....\n");

   $stmt = $con -> prepare( "SELECT * FROM Test WHERE Name in(?, ?)");
   $stmt -> bind_param("ss", $name1, $name2);
   $name1 = 'Raju';
   $name2 = 'Rahman';

   //Executing the statement
   $stmt->execute();

   //Retrieving the result
   $result = $stmt->get_result();

   //Fetching all the rows as arrays
   $info = $result->fetch_fields();
   foreach ($info as $ele) {
      print("ID: ".$ele->name."\n");
      print("First_Name: ".$ele->table."\n");
      print("Last_Name: ".$ele->max_length."\n");
      print("Place_Of_Birth: ".$ele->charsetnr."\n");
      print("Country: ".$ele->flags."\n");
      print("Country: ".$ele->type."\n");
      print("\n");
   }
   //Closing the statement
   $stmt->close();

   //Closing the connection
   $con->close();
?>