ifx_fieldproperties

(PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

Description

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 fieldproperties 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".

$properties = ifx_fieldproperties ($resultid);
if (! isset($properties)) {
 ... error ...
}
for ($i = 0; $i < count($properties); $i++) {
 $fname = key ($properties);
 printf ("%s:\t type = %s\n", $fname, $properties[$fname]);
 next ($properties);
}