Get Mysql column names?

[rune_sm]

Hey everyone

 

I'm making a php-script that I can use to access any Mysql table i use. That's why I don't know the names of the columns. Sometimes it's a table containing new, sometimes url-links to pictures. The script outputs an xml file to flash, and I usually do something like this:

 

<?php

        // Database iinformation
$db_host="myhost.dk";
$db_user="myuser";
$db_name="mydbname";
$db_password="mypass";

	mysql_pconnect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password);
        mysql_select_db($db_name);

// Select data in database
$result = mysql_query("select * from news");

// Loop through it
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{ 
    	      print('<headline>'.$row["headline"].'</headline>');	
    	      print('<date>'.$row["date"].'</date>');	
    	      print('<text>'.$row["headline"].'</text>');	
} 
?>

 

But when I don't know how many columns I have in my table or what their names are, I cannot figure it out.

What I want to do in my loop is something like this:

// Loop through it
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{ 
    	      print('<'.$row["name-of-column1"].'>');	
    	      print($row["data-in-column1"]);	
print('<'.$row["name-of-column1"].'>');	

} 

 

[bubblegum.anarchy]

string mysql_field_name ( resource result, int field_offset )

 

<?php
/* The users table consists of three fields:
*   user_id
*   username
*   password.
*/
$link = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
   die('Could not connect to MySQL server: ' . mysql_error());
}
$dbname = 'mydb';
$db_selected = mysql_select_db($dbname, $link);
if (!$db_selected) {
   die("Could not set $dbname: " . mysql_error());
}
$res = mysql_query('select * from users', $link);

echo mysql_field_name($res, 0) . "\n";
echo mysql_field_name($res, 2);
?>

The above example will output:

 

user_id
password

 

and use int mysql_num_fields ( resource result ) for a field count