$result = pg_exec($conn,"select * from table"); if (pg_numrows($result)) { for($i=0;$i<pg_numfields($result);$i++) { print "<td>".pg_fieldname($result,$i)."</td>\n"; } } HTH Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:26, Kelvin Varst wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I make a simple "SELECT * FROM table;" query, is there somewhere in > > that query I can find the names of the columns? > > In PHP if you get the rows with: > > $row = pg_Fetch_Object( $result, $rownum); > > You will be able to refer to them by name as $row->fieldname > $row->otherfield and so on. > > This is very useful :-) > > Otherwise, if you want to know the column names, something like: > > SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = (SELECT oid FROM > pg_class WHERE relname = 'mytable') AND attnum > 0 ORDER BY attnum; > > will get them for you. > > Regards, > Andrew. > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew @ Catalyst .Net.NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington > WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St > DDI: +64(4)916-7201 MOB: +64(21)635-694 OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 > Survey for nothing with http://survey.net.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly