mysqli_field_count

(PHP 5 CVS only)

mysqli_field_count -- Returns the number of columns for the most recent query

Description

int mysqli_field_count ( resource link)

Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection represented by the link parameter. This function can be useful when using the mysqli_store_result() function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result set or not without knowing the nature of the query.