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;
}

Answer 2

$con = mysqli_connect($hostname,$username,$password,$database);

if(mysqli_num_rows(mysqli_query($con,"SHOW TABLES LIKE 'accman'"))) {
  echo "DB EXIST";
} else {
  echo "DB Not Exist";
}

Answer 3

What you posted is going to throw an error if the table doesn't exist. Try this instead:

SHOW TABLES LIKE 'tablename';

And ensure that you get exactly one row back.

Answer 4

For seeing, if [table name] exist

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM information_schema.tables 
WHERE table_schema = '[database name]' 
AND table_name = '[table name]';

Answer 5

An alternative to the SHOW TABLES approach from other answers is using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA like this:

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
 WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'your_database_name' AND TABLE_NAME = 'tablename';