Re: How can I get metadate of a table in PHP3?

My meaning is how can I get all the fields name of a table?

ID Name Age ....
1 John 20
2 Smith 23
.....

Get ID, Name and Age and so on.

knut(dot)suebert(at)web(dot)de wrote:

>Zhidian Du schrieb:
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>>How can I get metadate of a table in PHP3?
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>If you think about things like the output of "\d tablename", turn on
>the logging of queries, do a "\d tablename" and watch the
>logfiles.
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>Somewhere I need the fieldtypes of a table named $this->table, the
>query is
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> $q = "SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod)
> FROM pg_class c, pg_attribute a
> WHERE c.relname = '".$this->table."'
> AND a.attnum > 0 AND a.attrelid = c.oid
> ORDER BY a.attnum";
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>which is stolen from the logs - I'll never understand it ;)
>
>Greetings,
>Knut Sübert
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