How to get primary key of table?

Question

Is there a way to get the name of primary key field from mysql-database? For example:

I have a table like this:

+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+---         


        

Answer 1

I've got it, finally!

<?php

function mysql_get_prim_key($table){
$sql = "SHOW INDEX FROM $table WHERE Key_name = 'PRIMARY'";
$gp = mysql_query($sql);
$cgp = mysql_num_rows($gp);
if($cgp > 0){
// Note I'm not using a while loop because I never use more than one prim key column
$agp = mysql_fetch_array($gp);
extract($agp);
return($Column_name);
}else{
return(false);
}
}

?>

Answer 2

If you have spatial tables in your database, use:

SHOW KEYS FROM table WHERE Key_name = 'PRIMARY' OR Key_name = 'OGR_FID'