(no version information, might be only in CVS)
maxdb_field_count -- Returns the number of columns for the most recent queryProcedural style:
int maxdb_field_count ( resource link )Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection represented by the link parameter. This function can be useful when using the maxdb_store_result() function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result set or not without knowing the nature of the query.