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mysql_field_len

Name

mysql_field_len — Gets the maximum length of the specified column in a result set.

Synopsis

int mysql_field_len(result handle, field_offset);
mysql result result handle: Result handle returned by mysql_db_query() or mysql_query()
int field_offset: Field offset to use

Returns

Integer; FALSE on error

Description

mysql_field_len() reports the maximum length of the specified field in a result set returned by mysql_db_query() or mysql_query() . The field_offset argument specifies the desired column. The field offset starts at 0.

For BLOB, CHARACTER,DATE,ENUM, and NUMERIC field types, the number returned is the maximum number of bytes that can occupy a field. For SET type columns, the length of the column is equivalent to each element in the SET column separated by single commas; for example, a set containing 'FOO','BAR','BAZ' would return a length of 11, which is the length of the stringFOO,BAR,BAZ.

Version

PHP 3+, PHP 4+

See also

To find the actual lengths of the fields in a row:

mysql_fetch_lengths()



Example

Example 811. Display the names and maximum lengths of the fields in a query

<?php
// Included code that connects to a MySQL server and sets a default database
// See the MySQL Functions chapter introduction for the source code for the file
include ('mysql_connect.inc.php');

// Simple SELECT query
$query = "SELECT * FROM user";

// Run the query
$mysql_result = @ mysql_query ($query)
    or die ("Query '$query' failed with error message: \"" . mysql_error () . '"');

// Display the names and max lengths of the fields
for ($offset = 0; $offset < mysql_num_fields ($mysql_result); ++$offset) {

   echo '<b>', mysql_field_name ($mysql_result, $offset), ':</b> ', 
      mysql_field_len ($mysql_result, $offset), '<br />';

}
?>



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