Re: Column names

$result = pg_exec($conn,"select * from table");
if (pg_numrows($result)) {
for($i=0;$i<pg_numfields($result);$i++) {
print "<td>".pg_fieldname($result,$i)."</td>\n";
}

}

HTH

Andrew McMillan wrote:

> 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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