Hi,
Use this:
$query="describe TableName";
$result=mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
This is one good way to prevent update or delete or mass up the table
without known.
Kelvin.
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> I"ve been involved with PHP for a total of two days now, and I'm kinda
> stumped. I've been looking in docs for about 4 hours now for this, and I'm
> sure I'm slipping right by the obvious answer somewhere, but....
>
> What's the best (recommended) way to determine if a table exists in a
> database? Is it to try a query on it, and check the returned error? that's
> the way I'm set up now, but I can't help but think there's got to be a
> better way...
>
> TIA,
> ~BD~
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