mssql_field_name

Get the name of a field

Warning

This function was REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.

Alternatives to this function include:

  • PDOStatement::getColumnMeta
  • sqlsrv_field_metadata
  • odbc_field_name

Description

string mssql_field_name ( resource $result [, int $offset = -1 ] )

Returns the name of field no. offset in result.

Parameters

result

The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to mssql_query.

offset

The field offset, starts at 0. If omitted, the current field is used.

Return Values

The name of the specified field index on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 mssql_field_name example

<?php
// Send a select query to MSSQL
$query mssql_query('SELECT [username], [name], [email] FROM [php].[dbo].[userlist]');

echo 
'Result set contains the following field(s):'PHP_EOL;

// Dump all field names in result
for ($i 0$i mssql_num_fields($query); ++$i) {
    echo 
' - ' mssql_field_name($query$i), PHP_EOL;
}

// Free the query result
mssql_free_result($query);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Result set contains the following field(s):
 - username
 - name
 - email

See Also

  • mssql_field_length
  • mssql_field_type