mysqli_field_count

Description

Procedural style:

Object oriented style (method):

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 mysqli_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

Examples

Example 1. Object oriented style <?php $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')"); $mysqli->real_query($HTTP_POST_VARS['query']); if ($mysqli->field_count) {     /* this was a select/show or describe query */     $result = $mysqli->store_result();     /* process resultset */     $row = $result->fetch_row();     /* free resultset */     $result->close(); } /* close connection */ $mysqli->close(); ?>

Example 2. Procedural style <?php $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test"); mysqli_query($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')"); mysqli_real_query($link, $HTTP_POST_VARS['query']); if (mysqli_field_count($link)) {     /* this was a select/show or describe query */     $result = mysqli_store_result($link);     /* process resultset */     $row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);     /* free resultset */     mysqli_free_result($result); } /* close connection */ mysqli_close($link); ?>