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

Example 1. Procedural style

<?php
$link 
maxdb_connect("localhost""my_user""my_password""test");

maxdb_query($link"DROP TABLE friends"); 
maxdb_query($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')");

maxdb_real_query($link$HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);

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);
?>