Retrieve column names from MySQL query [duplicate] - php

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MySQL query to get column names?
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I am attempting to retrieve the column headers for html headers from a MySQL query. The structure of my application is such that the column headers aren't static (sometimes there are 4, sometimes 7, etc.) For some unbearable reason I can't find a simple way to get the column names from any given query.
My end goal is to output an html table from the query.

Answer 1

Well if you get the query as an associative array, you can do something like this:
$query = "Select [stuff]";
$results = mysql_query($query);
$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
if ($i < 1) {
foreach($row as $key => $val) {
echo $key;//column name
}
}
//Do other stuff
$i++;
}
And yes, I know they should be doing mysqli_..., but this is my example using old mysql_...
Edit
To expand on this:
$query = "Select [stuff]";
$results = mysql_query($query);
$i = 0;
echo "<table>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
echo "<tr>";
if ($i < 1) {
foreach($row as $key => $val) {
echo "<td>".$key."</td>";//column name
}
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
foreach($row as $key => $val) {
echo "<td>".$val."</td>";//column name
}
echo "</tr>";
//Do other stuff
$i++;
}

Answer 2

You can use function mysql_list_fields for getting column names.

Answer 3

Code below gets data from sql. Including header column
// Data, depends on your sql statement
$sql_dt = array(); // make sure it is array
foreach( $sql_dt as $key => $val ) {
$data[] = <<< EOH
<tr>
<th>$val['column_name']</th> <tr/>
<th>$val['column_age']</th>
<tr/>
EOH;
}
$table_dt = implode( $data );
echo <<< EOT
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th> <tr/>
<th>Age</th>
<tr/>
{$table_dt}
<table/>
EOT;