mysqli_stmt_result_metadata
    (PHP 5)
mysqli_stmt_result_metadata -- Returns result set metadata from a prepared statement
Description
Procedural style:
mysqli_result 
mysqli_stmt_result_metadata ( mysqli_stmt stmt )
Object oriented style (method):
class 
mysqli_stmt { 
mysqli_result 
result_metadata ( void  )
}
   If a statement passed to mysqli_prepare() is one that produces
   a result set, mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() returns the result object 
   that can be used to process the meta information such as total number of fields 
   and individual field information. 
  
Note: This result set pointer can be passed as an argument to any of the 
    field-based functions that process result set metadata, such as: 
    
   
   The result set structure should be freed when you are done with it, 
   which you can do by passing it to mysqli_free_result()
  
Note: 
    The result set returned by mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() contains only 
    metadata. It does not contain any row results. The rows are obtained by using the
    statement handle with mysqli_stmt_fetch().
   
Return Values
   mysqli_stmt_result_metadata() returns a result object or FALSE if
   an error occured.
  
Examples
   
Example 1. Object oriented style 
<?php $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
  $mysqli->query("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");  $mysqli->query("CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");    $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
  $stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT id, name FROM friends"); $stmt->execute();
  /* get resultset for metadata */ $result = $stmt->result_metadata();
  /* retrieve field information from metadata result set */ $field = $result->fetch_field();
  printf("Fieldname: %s\n", $field->name);
  /* close resultset */ $result->close();
  /* close connection */ $mysqli->close(); ?>
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   Example 2. Procedural style 
<?php $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
  mysqli_query($link, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");  mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");    mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");
  $stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, "SELECT id, name FROM friends"); mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
  /* get resultset for metadata */ $result = mysqli_stmt_result_metadata($stmt);
  /* retrieve field information from metadata result set */ $field = mysqli_fetch_field($result);
  printf("Fieldname: %s\n", $field->name);
  /* close resultset */ mysqli_free_result($result);
  /* close connection */ mysqli_close($link); ?>
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