here are the data types that correspond to the TYPE number returned by fetch_field.
thought i would post this here since i couldn't find the info elsewhere.
numerics
-------------
BIT: 16
TINYINT: 1
BOOL: 1
SMALLINT: 2
MEDIUMINT: 9
INTEGER: 3
BIGINT: 8
SERIAL: 8
FLOAT: 4
DOUBLE: 5
DECIMAL: 246
NUMERIC: 246
FIXED: 246
dates
------------
DATE: 10
DATETIME: 12
TIMESTAMP: 7
TIME: 11
YEAR: 13
strings & binary
------------
CHAR: 254
VARCHAR: 253
ENUM: 254
SET: 254
BINARY: 254
VARBINARY: 253
TINYBLOB: 252
BLOB: 252
MEDIUMBLOB: 252
TINYTEXT: 252
TEXT: 252
MEDIUMTEXT: 252
LONGTEXT: 252
mysqli_result::fetch_field
mysqli_fetch_field
(PHP 5)
mysqli_result::fetch_field -- mysqli_fetch_field — Returns the next field in the result set
Description
Object oriented style
object mysqli_result::fetch_field
( void
)
Procedural style
Returns the definition of one column of a result set as an object. Call this function repeatedly to retrieve information about all columns in the result set.
Parameters
-
result
-
Procedural style only: A result set identifier returned by mysqli_query(), mysqli_store_result() or mysqli_use_result().
Return Values
Returns an object which contains field definition information or FALSE
if no field information is available.
Property | 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 | Reserved for default value, currently always "" |
db | Database (since PHP 5.3.6) |
catalog | The catalog name, always "def" (since PHP 5.3.6) |
max_length | The maximum width of the field for the result set. |
length | The width of the field, as specified in the table definition. |
charsetnr | The character set number for the field. |
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) |
Examples
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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
/* Get field information for all columns */
while ($finfo = $result->fetch_field()) {
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\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();
}
$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code LIMIT 5";
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query)) {
/* Get field information for all fields */
while ($finfo = mysqli_fetch_field($result)) {
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\n", $finfo->type);
}
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>
The above examples will output:
Name: Name Table: Country max. Len: 11 Flags: 1 Type: 254 Name: SurfaceArea Table: Country max. Len: 10 Flags: 32769 Type: 4
See Also
- mysqli_num_fields() - Get the number of fields in a result
- mysqli_fetch_field_direct() - Fetch meta-data for a single field
- mysqli_fetch_fields() - Returns an array of objects representing the fields in a result set
- mysqli_field_seek() - Set result pointer to a specified field offset

iansoko at hotmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
ragtag at hotmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
The flags used by MySql are:
NOT_NULL_FLAG = 1
PRI_KEY_FLAG = 2
UNIQUE_KEY_FLAG = 4
BLOB_FLAG = 16
UNSIGNED_FLAG = 32
ZEROFILL_FLAG = 64
BINARY_FLAG = 128
ENUM_FLAG = 256
AUTO_INCREMENT_FLAG = 512
TIMESTAMP_FLAG = 1024
SET_FLAG = 2048
NUM_FLAG = 32768
PART_KEY_FLAG = 16384
GROUP_FLAG = 32768
UNIQUE_FLAG = 65536
To test if a flag is set you can use & like so:
<?php
$meta = $mysqli_result_object->fetch_field();
if ($meta->flags & 4) {
echo 'Unique key flag is set';
}
?>
miqrogroove at gmail dot com ¶
7 months ago
Beware the values of the predefined constants. They do not always correlate with the actual field types. For example:
MYSQLI_TYPE_BLOB: 252
MYSQLI_TYPE_TINY_BLOB: 249
MYSQLI_TYPE_MEDIUM_BLOB: 250
MYSQLI_TYPE_LONG_BLOB: 251
MySQLi will indeed return a value of 252 for a tinytext field, but as you can see, this does not correspond to the value of MYSQLI_TYPE_TINY_BLOB.
Anonymous ¶
1 year ago
The constants for the TYPE number returned by fetch_field are enumerated here (MYSQLI_TYPE_*):
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.constants.php