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Old May 27th, 2000, 05:38 AM
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Hi

I'm writing a generel function for one of my sites.

In that function i need to be able to retrieve the lenght of a MySQL field.
eg. if the field is declared with MyName = VARCHAR(50) i need to parse the 50.
I use PHP (3) as front-end and i'm retrieving data as follows:
$mrQuery = db_query("SELECT fieldValue FROM ".$my_table_name." WHERE fieldName = ".$my_field_name."");

What do i need to do to get the length of "fieldValue"??

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You'll have to use the mysql_list_fields() function as the query:

$result=mysql_list_fields("databasename","tablename");

and mysql_field_len() to get the length:

$len=mysql_field_len($result,$field_num);

where $field_num is the offset of the field you wish to retrieve.

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Old May 27th, 2000, 07:58 AM
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Works like a charm

Thanx.

// Martin

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