maxdb_field_count

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

maxdb_field_count -- Returns the number of columns for the most recent query

Description

Procedural style:

int maxdb_field_count ( resource link )

Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection represented by the link parameter. This function can be useful when using the maxdb_store_result() function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result set or not without knowing the nature of the query.

Return values

An integer representing the number of fields in a result set

Example

Exemplo 1. Procedural style

<?php
$link
= maxdb_connect("localhost", "MONA", "RED");

maxdb_report (MAXDB_REPORT_OFF);
maxdb_query($link,"DROP TABLE friends");
maxdb_report (MAXDB_REPORT_ERROR);

maxdb_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");

maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut')");
maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (2, 'Ulf')");

if (
maxdb_field_count($link)) {
   
/* this was a select/show or describe query */
   
$result = maxdb_store_result($link);
   
   
/* process resultset */
   
$row = maxdb_fetch_row($result);

   
/* free resultset */
   
maxdb_free_result($result);
}

/* close connection */
maxdb_close($link);
?>