<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","my_user","my_password","my_db");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

$sql="SELECT Lastname,Age FROM Persons ORDER BY Lastname";

if ($result=mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
// Return the number of fields in result set
$fieldcount=mysqli_num_fields($result);
printf("Result set has %d fields.n",$fieldcount);
// Free result set
mysqli_free_result($result);
}

mysqli_close($con);
?>