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# msql_fetch_field

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

msql_fetch_field — Get field information

### Description

object msql_fetch_field ( resource `$result` [, int `$field_offset` ] )

msql_fetch_field() can be used in order to obtain information about fields in a certain query result.

### Parameters

`result`

  The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to msql_query().

`field_offset`

  The field offset. If not specified, the next field that wasn't yet retrieved by msql_fetch_field() is retrieved.

### Return Values

Returns an object containing field information. The properties of the object are:

- name - column name

- table - name of the table the column belongs to

- not_null - 1 if the column cannot be `NULL`

- unique - 1 if the column is a unique key

- type - the type of the column

### See Also

- msql_field_seek()

msql_fetch_array
msql_fetch_object
mSQL Functions
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