Question

I have a database table named “author” and when someone sign up and then visit his profile I want to show result like

Name : user name here
Email : email here
location : location here

Location, email and name are database column names. I can retireve the database value but I can not retieve the database column names. How can i do that?

Update:
Here is my code

$query = "SELECT * 
                      FROM author 
                      WHERE id = {$author_id};
 $author_info = mysql_query($query, $connection);
$author_details  =  mysql_fetch_assoc($author_info);
foreach ($author_details as $fieldname) {
echo $fieldname;
}

From this code i get only the value of name, location, email but i also need to print column names like name, email, location along with their column values.

Answer 1

mysql_field_name($index)

Okay, let’s suppose you already ran the query to get your data. this is how you can create a table with those data as you want. Or just use mysql_field_name($index) as you want. with this example you’ll get the idea.

$numFields = mysql_num_fields($result); 

echo "<table id='whatever you want here'>";
        echo "<tr>";
            for($i = 0; $i < $numFields; $i++)
            {
                echo "<th>";
                    echo mysql_field_name($result,$i);
                echo "</th>";
            }
        echo "</tr>";

        while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
        {
            echo "<tr>";
                for($i = 0; $i < $numFields; $i++)
                {
                    echo "<td>$row[$i]</td>";
                }
            echo "</tr>";
        }
echo "</table>";