Hi,
When I make a simple "SELECT * FROM table;" query, is there somewhere in
that query I can find the names of the columns?
Kelvin :-)
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on 11/3/02 2:26 AM, kelvin@varst.dk purportedly said:
> When I make a simple "SELECT * FROM table;" query, is there somewhere in
> that query I can find the names of the columns?
What exactly do you need to do? The column names are available to PHP. You
can determine them dynamically by using pg_fetch_assoc() and applying
array_keys() to the resulting aray.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:26, Kelvin Varst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I make a simple "SELECT * FROM table;" query, is there somewhere in
> that query I can find the names of the columns?
In PHP if you get the rows with:
$row = pg_Fetch_Object( $result, $rownum);
You will be able to refer to them by name as $row->fieldname
$row->otherfield and so on.
This is very useful :-)
Otherwise, if you want to know the column names, something like:
SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = (SELECT oid FROM
pg_class WHERE relname = 'mytable') AND attnum > 0 ORDER BY attnum;
will get them for you.
Regards,
Andrew.
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$result = pg_exec($conn,"select * from table");
if (pg_numrows($result)) {
for($i=0;$i