PDOStatement::getColumnMeta
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PECL pdo >= 0.2.0)
PDOStatement::getColumnMeta — Returns metadata for a column in a result set
Description
$column
) : arrayRetrieves the metadata for a 0-indexed column in a result set as an associative array.
Not all PDO drivers support PDOStatement::getColumnMeta().
The following drivers support this method:
Return Values
Returns an associative array containing the following values representing the metadata for a single column:
Name | Value |
---|---|
native_type | The PHP native type used to represent the column value. |
driver:decl_type | The SQL type used to represent the column value in the database. If the column in the result set is the result of a function, this value is not returned by PDOStatement::getColumnMeta(). |
flags | Any flags set for this column. |
name | The name of this column as returned by the database. |
table | The name of this column's table as returned by the database. |
len | The length of this column. Normally -1 for types other than floating point decimals. |
precision | The numeric precision of this column. Normally 0 for types other than floating point decimals. |
pdo_type | The type of this column as represented by the PDO::PARAM_* constants. |
Returns FALSE
if the requested column does not exist in the result set,
or if no result set exists.
Examples
Example #1 Retrieving column metadata
The following example shows the results of retrieving the metadata for a single column generated by a function (COUNT) in a PDO_SQLITE driver.
<?php
$select = $DB->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM fruit');
$meta = $select->getColumnMeta(0);
var_dump($meta);
?>
The above example will output:
array(6) { ["native_type"]=> string(7) "integer" ["flags"]=> array(0) { } ["name"]=> string(8) "COUNT(*)" ["len"]=> int(-1) ["precision"]=> int(0) ["pdo_type"]=> int(2) }
See Also
- PDOStatement::columnCount() - Returns the number of columns in the result set
- PDOStatement::rowCount() - Returns the number of rows affected by the last SQL statement
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