Okay what the hell I'm bored anyway...

function mysql_table_exists($table)
{
    global $db;  // <- database resource handle
    $result = @mysql_list_tables($db);
    if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0)
    {
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
        {
            if (strtolower($row[0]) == strtolower($table)))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Untested but it's pretty basic stuff so I'm certain it works.  Enjoy!

-Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mako Shark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: [PHP] Finding out if a table exists


> Is there a way of finding if a table exists with only
> one command in MySQL? I've looked through the MySQL
> functions, and the closest I've gotten to what I need
> is mysql_list_tables or mysql_tablename (I'll have to
> check into these a little more), but I was hopefully
> looking for something that returns a boolean value,
> and to be able to use it like:
> 
> if(mysql_table_exists("tablename")) {
> ...
> }
> 
> Any ideas, short of creating my own function?
> 
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