mysql_field_type
    (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)
mysql_field_type -- Get the type of the specified field in a result
Description
string 
mysql_field_type ( resource result, int field_offset )
   mysql_field_type() is similar to the
   mysql_field_name() function. The arguments are
   identical, but the field type is returned instead.
  
Parameters
   
- 
result
 The result resource that
is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to 
mysql_query().
- 
field_offset
 The numerical field offset. The 
field_offset starts at 0. If 
field_offset does not exist, an error of level
E_WARNING is also issued.
 
  Return Values
   The returned field type
   will be one of "int", "real", 
   "string", "blob", and others as
   detailed in the MySQL
   documentation.
  
Examples
   
Example 1. mysql_field_type() example 
<?php mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_username", "mysql_password"); mysql_select_db("mysql"); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM func"); $fields = mysql_num_fields($result); $rows   = mysql_num_rows($result); $table  = mysql_field_table($result, 0); echo "Your '" . $table . "' table has " . $fields . " fields and " . $rows . " record(s)\n"; echo "The table has the following fields:\n"; for ($i=0; $i < $fields; $i++) {     $type  = mysql_field_type($result, $i);     $name  = mysql_field_name($result, $i);     $len   = mysql_field_len($result, $i);     $flags = mysql_field_flags($result, $i);     echo $type . " " . $name . " " . $len . " " . $flags . "\n"; } mysql_free_result($result); mysql_close(); ?>
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 The above example will output 
something similar to: Your 'func' table has 4 fields and 1 record(s)
The table has the following fields:
string name 64 not_null primary_key binary
int ret 1 not_null
string dl 128 not_null
string type 9 not_null enum  |  
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  Notes
Note: 
    For downward compatibility, the following 
deprecated alias may be used: 
    mysql_fieldtype()