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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $ -->
-  <refentry id="function.maxdb-field-count">
-   <refnamediv>
-    <refname>maxdb_field_count</refname>
-    <refpurpose>Returns the number of columns for the most recent query</refpurpose>
-   </refnamediv>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Description</title>
-    <para>Procedural style:</para>
-    <methodsynopsis>
-     <type>int</type><methodname>maxdb_field_count</methodname>
-     <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>link</parameter></methodparam>
-    </methodsynopsis>
-    <para>
-     Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection
-     represented by the <parameter>link</parameter> parameter. This function
-     can be useful when using the <function>maxdb_store_result</function>
-     function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result
-     set or not without knowing the nature of the query.
-    </para>
-   </refsect1>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Return values</title>
-    <para>An integer representing the number of fields in a result set</para>
-   </refsect1>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Example</title>
-    <para>
-     <example>
-      <title>Procedural style</title>
-      <programlisting role='php'>
-<![CDATA[
-<?php
-$link = maxdb_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
-
-maxdb_query($link, "DROP TABLE friends"); 
-maxdb_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))"); 
- 
-maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut')");
-maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (2, 'Ulf')");
-
-maxdb_real_query($link, $HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);
-
-if (maxdb_field_count($link)) {
-    /* this was a select/show or describe query */
-    $result = maxdb_store_result($link);
-    
-    /* process resultset */
-    $row = maxdb_fetch_row($result);
-
-    /* free resultset */
-    maxdb_free_result($result);
-}
-
-/* close connection */
-maxdb_close($link);
-?>
-]]>
-      </programlisting>
-     </example>
-    </para>
-   </refsect1>
-  </refentry>
-
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diff --git a/reference/maxdb/functions/maxdb-fetch-field-seek.xml b/reference/maxdb/functions/maxdb-fetch-field-seek.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $ -->
-  <refentry id="function.maxdb-field-seek">
-   <refnamediv>
-    <refname>maxdb_field_seek</refname>
-    <refpurpose>
-     Set result pointer to a specified field offset
-    </refpurpose>
-   </refnamediv>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Description</title>
-     <para>Procedural style:</para>
-     <methodsynopsis>
-      <type>int</type><methodname>maxdb_field_seek</methodname>
-      <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>result</parameter></methodparam>
-      <methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>fieldnr</parameter></methodparam>
-     </methodsynopsis>
-    <para>
-     Sets the field cursor to the given offset. The next call to <function>maxdb_fetch_field</function>
-     will retrieve the field definition of the column associated with that offset.
-    </para>
-    <note>
-     <para>To seek to the beginning of a row, pass an offset value of zero.</para>
-    </note>
-   </refsect1>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Return values</title>
-    <para>
-     <function>maxdb_field_seek</function> returns previuos value of field cursor.
-    </para>
-   </refsect1>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>See also</title>
-    <para>
-     <function>maxdb_fetch_field</function>
-    </para>
-   </refsect1>
-   <refsect1>
-    <title>Example</title>
-    <example>
-     <title>Procedural style</title>
-     <programlisting role="php">
-<![CDATA[
-<?php
-$link = maxdb_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
-
-/* check connection */
-if (maxdb_connect_errno()) {
-    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", maxdb_connect_error());
-    exit();
-}
-
-$query = "SELECT Name, SurfaceArea from Country ORDER BY Code";
-
-if ($result = maxdb_query($link, $query)) {
-
-    /* Get field information for 2nd column */
-    maxdb_field_seek($result, 1);
-    $finfo = maxdb_fetch_field($result);
- 
-    printf("Name:     %s\n", $finfo->name);
-    printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
-    printf("Type:     %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
-
-    maxdb_free_result($result);
-}
-
-/* close connection */
-maxdb_close($link);
-?>
-]]>
-     </programlisting>
-    </example>
-    <para>
-     The above examples would produce the following output:
-    </para>
-    <screen>
-<![CDATA[
-Name:     SurfaceArea
-max. Len: 10
-Type:     4
-
-]]>
-    </screen>
-   </refsect1>
-  </refentry>
-
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