MySQLi Table Exists

Question

In PHP, what would be the best way of seeing if a table exists?

This is what I am using so far

public function TableExists($table) {
    $res = $thi         


        

Answer 1

Colin has the right solution -- to use SHOW TABLES LIKE. Here is what it would look like using your code:

public function TableExists($table) {
  $res = $this->Query("SHOW TABLES LIKE $table");
  return mysql_num_rows($res) > 0;
}