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  <refentry id="function.maxdb-fetch-field">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>maxdb_fetch_field</refname>
    <refname>result->fetch_field</refname>
    <refpurpose>Returns the next field in the result set</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>Procedural style:</para>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>mixed</type><methodname>maxdb_fetch_field</methodname>
     <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>result</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>Object oriented style (method):</para>
    <classsynopsis>
     <ooclass><classname>result</classname></ooclass>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>mixed</type><methodname>fetch_field</methodname>
      <void/>
     </methodsynopsis>
    </classsynopsis>
    <para>
     The <function>maxdb_fetch_field</function> returns the definition of one column 
     of a result set as an resource. Call this function repeatedly to retrieve 
     information about all columns in the result set. 
     <function>maxdb_fetch_field</function> returns &false; when no more fields 
     are left. 
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Return values</title>
    <para>
     Returns an resource which contains field definition informations or &false; if no field information
     is available.
    </para>
    <para>
    <table>
     <title>Object properties</title>
     <tgroup cols='2'>
      <thead>
       <row>
        <entry>Property</entry>
        <entry>Description</entry>
       </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
       <row>
        <entry>name</entry>
        <entry>The name of the column</entry>
       </row>
       <row>       
        <entry>max_length</entry>
        <entry>The maximum width of the field for the result set.</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>type</entry>
        <entry>The data type used for this field</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>decimals</entry>
        <entry>The number of decimals used (for integer fields)</entry>
       </row>
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>See also</title>
    <para>
     <function>maxdb_num_fields</function>
     <function>maxdb_fetch_field_direct</function>
     <function>maxdb_fetch_fields</function>
     <function>maxdb_field_seek</function>
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>
    <example>
     <title>Object oriented style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$maxdb = new maxdb("localhost", "MONA", "RED", "DEMODB");

/* check connection */
if (maxdb_connect_errno()) {
   printf("Connect failed: %s\n", maxdb_connect_error());
   exit();
}

$query = "SELECT name, cno from hotel.customer ORDER BY cno";

if ($result = $maxdb->query($query)) {

   /* Get field information for all columns */
   while ($finfo = $result->fetch_field()) {
 
       printf("Name:     %s\n", $finfo->name);
       printf("Table:    %s\n", $finfo->table);
       printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
       printf("Flags:    %d\n", $finfo->flags);
       printf("Type:     %d\n\n", $finfo->type);
   }    
   $result->close();
}

/* close connection */
$maxdb->close();
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    </example>
    <example>
     <title>Procedural style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$link = maxdb_connect("localhost", "MONA", "RED", "DEMODB");

/* check connection */
if (maxdb_connect_errno()) {
   printf("Connect failed: %s\n", maxdb_connect_error());
   exit();
}

$query = "SELECT name, cno from hotel.customer ORDER BY cno";

if ($result = maxdb_query($link, $query)) {

   /* Get field information for all fields */
   while ($finfo = maxdb_fetch_field($result)) {
 
       printf("Name:     %s\n", $finfo->name);
       printf("Table:    %s\n", $finfo->table);
       printf("max. Len: %d\n", $finfo->max_length);
       printf("Flags:    %d\n", $finfo->flags);
       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:     NAME
Table:
max. Len: 10
Flags:    -1
Type:     2

Name:     CNO
Table:
max. Len: 4
Flags:    -1
Type:     0
]]>
    </screen>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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