There are MYSQLI_TYPE_* constants for the type property (listed in http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php).
e.g.
<?php
if ($finfo->type == MYSQLI_TYPE_VAR_STRING)
// a VARCHAR
mysqli::$field_count
mysqli_field_count
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mysqli::$field_count -- mysqli_field_count — Returns the number of columns for the most recent query
Description
Object-oriented style
Procedural style
Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection
represented by the mysql 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.
Parameters
-
mysql -
Procedural style only: A mysqli object returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
Return Values
An integer representing the number of fields in a result set.
Examples
Example #1 $mysqli->field_count example
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')");
$mysqli->real_query("SELECT * FROM friends");
if ($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();
?>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($link, "SELECT * FROM friends");
if (mysqli_field_count($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);
?>
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