On 17-May-2004 John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
How can I check if a table exists in a mysql db.
function tableexists($tbl) {
$res = @mysql_query(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $tbl);
return ($res ? true : false);
}
Regards,
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Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- It's
But wouldn't it be easier to create the tables in the first place?
Travis,
It surely would. But for one situation, I don't/can't have access to phpMyAdmin to
install it.
At the same time, I wanted to learn how to do it.
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John
I'm still learning. But isn't this much more fun than Perl!
To
How can I check if a table exists in a mysql db. If it table does not exist, then,
$news = mysql_query($sql_create);
else
$news = mysql_query($sql);
Not sure I know where to start?
-snip
$server = localhost;
$user = user1;
$pass = ;
$db=user1table;
$table=comments;
The manual says:
?php
mysql_connect(host);
$result = mysql_list_tables(wisconsin);
for ($i = 0; $i mysql_num_rows($result); $i++) {
$tb_names[$i] = mysql_tablename($result, $i);
echo $tb_names[$i] . BR;
}
?
To paraphrase, just use mysql_list_tables() to get a table list in a result
set,
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