Description

Returns an object containing field information.

sybase_fetch_field() can be used in order to obtain information about fields in a certain query result. If the field offset isn't specified, the next field that wasn't yet retrieved by sybase_fetch_field() is retrieved.

The properties of the object are:

• name - column name. if the column is a result of a function, this property is set to computed#N, where #N is a serial number.

• column_source - the table from which the column was taken

• max_length - maximum length of the column

• numeric - 1 if the column is numeric

• type - datatype of the column

See also sybase_field_seek().