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mysql_field_name

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

mysql_field_name --  Get the name of the specified field in a result

Description

string mysql_field_name (resource result, int field_index)

mysql_field_name() returns the name of the specified field index. result must be a valid result identifier and field_index is the numerical offset of the field.

Note: field_index starts at 0.

e.g. The index of the third field would actually be 2, the index of the fourth field would be 3 and so on.

Example 1. mysql_field_name() example

// The users table consists of three fields: 
//   user_id
//   username
//   password.
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', $user, "secret");
mysql_select_db($dbname, $link)
    or die("Could not set $dbname");
$res = mysql_query("select * from users", $link);

echo mysql_field_name($res, 0) . "\n";
echo mysql_field_name($res, 2);

The above example would produce the following output: 
user_id
password

For downwards compatibility mysql_fieldname() can also be used. This is deprecated, however.

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