ifx_fieldproperties

(PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)

ifx_fieldproperties -- List of SQL fieldproperties

Description

array ifx_fieldproperties ( int result_id)

Returns an associative array with fieldnames as key and the SQL fieldproperties as data for a query with result_id. Returns FALSE on error.

Returns the Informix SQL fieldproperties of every field in the query as an associative array. Properties are encoded as: "SQLTYPE;length;precision;scale;ISNULLABLE" where SQLTYPE = the Informix type like "SQLVCHAR" etc. and ISNULLABLE = "Y" or "N".

Example 1. Informix SQL fieldproperties

<?php
$properties
= ifx_fieldproperties ($resultid);
if (! isset(
$properties)) {
    
/* ... error ... */
}
for (
$i = 0; $i < count($properties); $i++) {
    
$fname = key ($properties);
    
printf ("%s:\t type =  %s\n", $fname, $properties[$fname]);
    
next ($properties);
}
?>

nt>);
    die (
"Please restrict your query<br />\n");
}
if (!
ifx_do ($rid)) {
   
/* ... error ... */
}
$row = ifx_fetch_row ($rid, "NEXT");
while (
is_array($row)) {
    for (
reset($row); $fieldname=key($row); next($row)) {
        
$fieldvalue = $row[$fieldname];
        
printf ("%s = %s,", $fieldname, $fieldvalue);
    }
    
printf("\n<br />");
    
$row = ifx_fetch_row($rid, "NEXT");
}
ifx_free_result ($rid);
?>