# mysqli_field_count

# mysqli->field_count()

(PHP 5)

mysqli->field_count() — Returns the number of columns for the most recent query

### Description

Procedural style:

int mysqli_field_count ( mysqli `$link` )

Object oriented style (method):

mysqli_result
int field_count ( void )

Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection represented by the `link` parameter. This function can be useful when using the mysqli_store_result() function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result set or not without knowing the nature of the query.

### Parameters

`link`

  Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()

### Return Values

An integer representing the number of fields in a result set.

### Examples

Example#1 Object oriented style

`<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
$mysqli->query( "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
$mysqli->query( "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");
$mysqli->query( "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
$mysqli->real_query($HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);
if ($mysqli->field_count) {
/* this was a select/show or describe query */
$result = $mysqli->store_result();
/* process resultset */
$row = $result->fetch_row();
/* free resultset */
$result->close();
}
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>`

Example#2 Procedural style

`<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
mysqli_query($link, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");
mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
mysqli_real_query($link, $HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);
if (mysqli_field_count($link)) {
/* this was a select/show or describe query */
$result = mysqli_store_result($link);
/* process resultset */
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
/* free resultset */
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>`