I have a table but I dont know what the columns are except for 1 column. There is only 1 permanent data value for each row, the rest of the columns are added and removed elsewhere. This isnt a problem for the query, i just do:
SELECT * FROM table
but for the php function bind_result() i need to give it variables for each column, which i do not know.
I think that once I have the columns in an array, I can do anther query and use call_user_func_array to bind the result to the array.
This seems like it would come up a lot so im wondering is there a standard way of doing this?
You could do
show columns from table;
And then parse that string to grab your column names.
You can also try the describe
command, which is used to list all of the fields in a table and the data format of each field. Usage:
describe TableName;
you can use
$metadata = $prep_statement->result_metadata()
after you executed the statement and then loop through all result fields using something like
while( $field = $metadata->fetch_field() ) { }
the properties of $field are documented here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-field.php
Couldn't you just do:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
foreach ($row as $field => $value)
{
...
}
}