Actually document PDOStatement::getColumnMeta.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
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<refentry id="function.PDOStatement-getColumnMeta">
<refnamediv>
<refname>PDOStatement::getColumnMeta</refname>
<refpurpose>
Returns meta data for a numbered column
Returns metadata for a column in a result set
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>array</type><methodname>PDOStatement::getColumnMeta</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>$column</parameter></methodparam>
<type>mixed</type><methodname>PDOStatement::getColumnMeta</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>column</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
&warn.undocumented.func;
&warn.experimental.func;
<para>
Retrieves the metadata for a 0-indexed column in a result set as an
associative array.
</para>
<warning>
<simpara>
Not all PDO drivers support
<function>PDOStatement::getColumnMeta</function>.
</simpara>
</warning>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
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<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>$column</parameter></term>
<term><parameter>column</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Its description
The 0-indexed column in the result set.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
What the function returns, first on success, then on failure. See
also the &return.success; entity
Returns an associative array containing the following values representing
the metadata for a single column:
</para>
<table>
<title>Column metadata</title>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<colspec colname='c1'/>
<colspec colname='c2'/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Name</entry>
<entry>Value</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><literal>native_type</literal></entry>
<entry>The PHP native type used to represent the column value.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal><varname>driver</varname>:decl_type</literal></entry>
<entry>The SQL type used to represent the column value in the database.
If the column in the result set is the result of a function, this value
is not returned by <function>PDOStatement::getColumnMeta</function>.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>flags</literal></entry>
<entry>Any flags set for this column.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>name</literal></entry>
<entry>The name of this column as returned by the database.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>len</literal></entry>
<entry>The length of this column. Normally <literal>-1</literal> for
types other than floating point decimals.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>precision</literal></entry>
<entry>The numeric precision of this column. Normally
<literal>0</literal> for types other than floating point
decimals.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>pdo_type</literal></entry>
<entry>The type of this column as represented by the
<literal>PDO_PARAM_*</literal> constants.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>
Returns &false; if the requested column does not exist in the result set,
or if no result set exists.
</para>
</refsect1>
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</refsect1>
-->
<!-- Use when a CHANGELOG exists
<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
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</refsect1>
-->
<!-- Use when examples exist
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>A PDOStatement-getColumnMeta example</title>
<title>Retrieving column metadata</title>
<para>
Any text that describes the purpose of the example, or
what goes on in the example should go here (inside the
<example> tag, not out
The following example shows the results of retrieving the metadata for a
single column generated by a function (COUNT) in a PDO_SQLITE driver.
</para>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
if ($anexample === true) {
echo 'Use the PEAR Coding Standards';
}
$select = $DB->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM fruit');
$meta = $select->getColumnMeta(0);
var_dump($meta);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
Use the PEAR Coding Standards
array(6) {
["native_type"]=>
string(7) "integer"
["flags"]=>
array(0) {
}
["name"]=>
string(8) "COUNT(*)"
["len"]=>
int(-1)
["precision"]=>
int(0)
["pdo_type"]=>
int(2)
}
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
-->
<!-- Use when adding See Also links
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function></function></member>
<member>Or <link linkend="somethingelse">something else</link></member>
<member><function>PDOStatement::columnCount</function></member>
<member><function>PDOStatement::rowCount</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
-->
</refentry>