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  <refentry id="function.maxdb-info">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>maxdb_info</refname>
    <refname>maxdb->info</refname>
    <refpurpose>Retrieves information about the most recently executed query</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <para>Procedural style:</para>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>maxdb_info</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>link</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
     <para>Object oriented style (property)</para>
     <classsynopsis>
      <ooclass><classname>maxdb</classname></ooclass>
       <fieldsynopsis><type>string</type><varname>info</varname></fieldsynopsis>
     </classsynopsis>
    <para>
     The <function>maxdb_info</function> function returns a string providing
     information about the last query executed. The nature of this string is
     provided below:
    </para>
    <para>
    <table>
     <title>Possible maxdb_info return values</title>
     <tgroup cols='2'>
      <thead>
       <row>
        <entry>Query type</entry>
        <entry>Example result string</entry>
       </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
       <row>
        <entry>INSERT INTO...SELECT...</entry>
        <entry>Records: 100 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>INSERT INTO...VALUES (...),(...),(...)</entry>
        <entry>Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>LOAD DATA INFILE ...</entry>
        <entry>Records: 1 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 0</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>ALTER TABLE ...</entry>
        <entry>Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>UPDATE ...</entry>
        <entry>Rows matched: 40 Changed: 40 Warnings: 0</entry>
       </row>
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
    </para>
    <note>
     <para>
      Queries which do not fall into one of the above formats are not supported.
      In these situations, <function>maxdb_info</function> will return an empty string. 
     </para>
    </note>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    &reftitle.returnvalues;
    <para>
     A character string representing additional information about the most recently executed query. 
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    &reftitle.seealso;
    <para>
     <function>maxdb_affected_rows</function>,
     <function>maxdb_warning_count</function>,
     <function>maxdb_num_rows</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();
}

$maxdb->query("CREATE TABLE temp.t1 LIKE hotel.city");

/* INSERT INTO .. SELECT */
$maxdb->query("INSERT INTO temp.t1 SELECT * FROM hotel.city");
printf("%s\n", $maxdb->info);

/* 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();
}

maxdb_query($link, "CREATE TABLE temp.t1 LIKE hotel.city");

/* INSERT INTO .. SELECT */
maxdb_query($link, "INSERT INTO temp.t1 SELECT * FROM hotel.city");
printf("%s\n", maxdb_info($link));

/* close connection */
maxdb_close($link);
?>
]]>
     </programlisting>
    </example>
    <para>
     The above examples would produce the following output:
    </para>
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
Records: 25 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
]]>
    </screen>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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