pg_field_name

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

pg_field_name — Returns the name of a field

Description

string pg_field_name ( resource $result , int $field_number )

pg_field_name() returns the name of the field occupying the given field_number in the given PostgreSQL result resource. Field numbering starts from 0.

Note:
This function used to be called pg_fieldname().

Parameters

result: PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(), pg_query_params() or pg_execute() (among others).
field_number: Field number, starting from 0.

Return Values

The field name, or FALSE on error.

Examples

Example #1 Getting information about fields


<?php
  $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect");

  $res = pg_query($dbconn, "select * from authors where author = 'Orwell'");
  $i = pg_num_fields($res);
  for ($j = 0; $j < $i; $j++) {
      echo "column $j\n";
      $fieldname = pg_field_name($res, $j);
      echo "fieldname: $fieldname\n";
      echo "printed length: " . pg_field_prtlen($res, $fieldname) . " characters\n";
      echo "storage length: " . pg_field_size($res, $j) . " bytes\n";
      echo "field type: " . pg_field_type($res, $j) . " \n\n";
  }
?>

The above example will output:

column 0
fieldname: author
printed length: 6 characters
storage length: -1 bytes
field type: varchar 

column 1
fieldname: year
printed length: 4 characters
storage length: 2 bytes
field type: int2 

column 2
fieldname: title
printed length: 24 characters
storage length: -1 bytes
field type: varchar

User Contributed Notes

Anonymous

11 years ago


In fact you can extract the size of the varchar field, by simply sending the following query:
"select a.atttypmod,a.attrelid from pg_attribute as a, pg_class as c where c.relname='$table' AND a.attrelid=c.oid AND a.attname='$field'"

here is a simple function that does that:

function get_field_size($table, $field, $link) {
                
        $result = pg_query($link, "select a.atttypmod,a.attrelid from pg_attribute as a, pg_class as c where c.relname='$table' AND a.attrelid=c.oid AND a.attname='$field'");                 
        
        $data = pg_fetch_object($result);
        
        return ($data->atttypmod - 4);        
    
}

returned value is a size of a given field (also varchar)

ccasal at compuserve dot com

15 years ago


The pg_fieldname function only returns the unqualified name from the select statement. example:



select c.name, con.name from customer c, contacts con where con.customer_id = c.id;



pg_fieldname will return "name" for both fields instead of c.name and con.name.



This is a PostgreSQL limitation, not a PHP limitation.



if you need different field names you should use :



select c.name as customer_name, con.name as contact_name from customer c, contacts con where con.customer_id = c.id;



then pg_fieldname will return "customer_name" and "contact_name"