mssql_field_length

Get the length of a field

&reftitle.description; `int` `mssql_field_length` `resource` `result` `int` `offset`-1

Returns the length of field no. `offset` in `result`.

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`result`

- The result resource that is being evaluated. This result comes from a call to `mssql_query`.

`offset`

- The field offset, starts at 0. If omitted, the current field is used.

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The length of the specified field index on success&return.falseforfailure;.

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### `mssql_field_length` example

    <?php
    // Connect to MSSQL and select the database
    mssql_connect('MANGO\SQLEXPRESS', 'sa', 'phpfi');
    mssql_select_db('php');

    // Send a select query to MSSQL
    $query = mssql_query('SELECT [name], [age] FROM [php].[dbo].[persons]');

    // Print the field length
    echo 'The field \'age\' has a data length of ' . mssql_field_length($query, 1);

    // Free the query result
    mssql_free_result($query);
    ?>

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    The field 'age' has a data length of 4

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### Note to Windows Users

Due to a limitation in the underlying API used by PHP (MS DBLib C API), the length of `VARCHAR` fields is limited to 255. If you need to store more data, use a `TEXT` field instead.

&reftitle.seealso;

- `mssql_field_name`
- `mssql_field_type`