ifx_fieldproperties

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array ifx_fieldproperties(int result_id);

Returns an associative array with fieldnames as key and the SQL fieldproperties as data for a query with result_id. Returns FALSE on error.

Returns the Informix SQL fieldproperies of every field in the query as an associative array. Properties are encoded as: "SQLTYPE;length;precision;scale;ISNULLABLE" where SQLTYPE = the Informix type like "SQLVCHAR" etc. and ISNULLABLE = "Y" or "N".

Example 1. Informix SQL fieldproperties

  1 
  2 $properties = ifx_fieldtypes ($resultid);
  3 if (! isset($properties)) {
  4   ... error ...
  5 }
  6 for ($i = 0; $i < count($properties); $i++) {
  7     $fname = key ($properties);
  8     printf ("%s:\t type =  %s\n", $fname, $properties[$fname]);
  9     next ($properties);
 10 }
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