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18 years ago
In response to the note below me for the claim that mysqli_fetch_fields is not compatible with prepared statements.



This is untrue, it is but you have to do a little extra work. I would recommend you use a wrapper function of some sort to take care of the dirty business for you but the basic idea is the same.



Let's assume you have a prepared statement like so. I am going to use the procedural way for simplicity but the same idea can be done using the object oriented way:



<?php



// Connect Blah Blah Blah.



$connectionLink = mysqli_connect( .... );



// Query Blab Blah Blah.



$query = "Select `Id` From `Table` Where `Id` = ?";



// Prepare Query.



$prepareObject = mysqli_prepare( $connectionLink , $query );



// Bind Query.



mysqli_stmt_bind_param( $prepareObject , 'i' , 1 );



// Execute Query.



mysqli_stmt_execute( $prepareObject );



?>



Now all the above is fine and dandy to anyone familiar with using prepared statements, but if I want to use mysqli_fetch_fields or any other function that fetches meta information about a result set but does not work on prepared statements?



Enter the special function mysqli_stmt_result_metadata. It can be used as follows, assume the following code segment immediatley follows that of the above code segment.



<?php



$metaData = mysqli_stmt_result_metadata( $prepareObject );



// I Can Now Call mysqli_fetch_fields using the variable

// $metaData as an argument.



$fieldInfo = mysqli_fetch_fields( $metaData );



// Or Even This.



$fieldInfo = mysqli_num_fields( $metaData );



?>



Take a look at the Manual entry for mysqli_stmt_result_metatdata function for full details on how to expose it with prepared statements.



Good Luck,
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