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# mysql_list_tables

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mysql_list_tables -- Возвращает список таблиц базы данных MySQL

## Описание

resource mysql_list_tables ( string database [, resource link_identifier] )

mysql_list_tables(), принимая параметром имя базы данных, возвращает указатель на результат (аналогично mysql_query()), содержащий список её таблиц. Используйте функцию mysql_tablename() для обработки полученного указателя, либо любую другую функцию для обработки результатов, такую как mysql_fetch_array().

Параметр `database` -- имя базы данных, список таблиц которой будет возвращён. В случае ошибки, функция возвращает `FALSE`.

Для совместимости, как алиас, доступна устаревшая функция mysql_listtables(). Однако, использовать её крайне не рекомендуется.

> Замечание: Функция устарела и не должна быть использована. Используйте SQL-запрос SHOW TABLES FROM DATABASE вместо неё.

Пример 1. Пример использования mysql_list_tables()

`<?php
$dbname = 'mysql_dbname';
if (!mysql_connect('mysql_host', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password')) {
print 'Could not connect to mysql';
exit;
}
$result = mysql_list_tables($dbname);
if (!$result) {
print "DB Error, could not list tables\n";
print 'MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error();
exit;
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
print "Table: $row[0]\n";
}
mysql_free_result($result);
?>`

См. также mysql_list_dbs() и mysql_tablename().

add a note User Contributed Notes
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kroczu at interia dot pl
08-Dec-2006 03:01
`<?
// here is a much more elegant method to check if a table exists ( no error generate)
if( mysql_num_rows( mysql_query("SHOW TABLES LIKE '".$table."'")))
{
//...
}
?>`
arturclemente at gmail dot com
03-Apr-2006 01:09
`<?php
// Search any world in entire database
set_time_limit(0);
$database = 'embratur';
$word = 'tempo';
echo "Search for word: <b>".$word."</b><br><br>";
$connect = mysql_connect('localhost','root','123456');
mysql_selectdb( $database, $connect );
$j=0;
$tables = mysql_list_tables( $database );
while( $line = mysql_fetch_row( $tables ) )
{
$fields = mysql_list_fields( $database, $line[0], $connect );
$columns = mysql_num_fields( $fields );
for ($i = 0; $i < $columns; $i++) {
$nomField = mysql_field_name( $fields, $i );
$sql = "SELECT ".$nomField." FROM " . $line[0] .
" WHERE " .
$nomField . " LIKE '%".$word."' LIMIT 1";
$query = mysql_query( $sql );
if( mysql_num_rows( $query ) > 0)
{
$result = mysql_fetch_array( $query );
echo "Table: <b>".$line[0]."</b><br>";
echo "Field: <b>".$nomField."</b><br>";
echo "SQL: <b>".$sql."</b><br>";
echo "Result: <b>" . str_replace( $word, "<font color='blue'>". $word . "</font>", $result[0] ) . "</b>";
echo "<br><br>";
$j++;
}
}
}
echo "<br><br><br>";
echo "Results: ".$j;
?>`
mrkvomail at centrum dot cz
29-Jan-2006 11:48
`You can also do this with function mysql_query(). It's better because mysql_list_tables is old function and you can stop showing errors.
function mysql_table_exists($dbLink, $database, $tableName)
{
$tables = array();
$tablesResult = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES FROM $database;", $dbLink);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($tablesResult)) $tables[] = $row[0];
if (!$result) {
}
return(in_array($tableName, $tables));
}`
Anonymous
15-Dec-2005 06:38
`Getting the database status:
<?
// Get database status by DtTvB
// Connect first
mysql_connect ('*********', '*********', '********');
mysql_select_db ('*********');
// Get the list of tables
$sql = 'SHOW TABLES FROM *********';
if (!$result = mysql_query($sql)) { die ('Error getting table list (' . $sql . ' :: ' . mysql_error() . ')'); }
// Make the list of tables an array
$tablerow = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $tablerow[] = $row; }
// Define variables...
$total_tables = count($tablerow);
$statrow = array();
$total_rows = 0;
$total_rows_average = 0;
$sizeo = 0;
// Get the status of each table
for ($i = 0; $i < count($tablerow); $i++) {
// Query the status...
$sql = "SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '{$tablerow[$i][0]}';";
if (!$result = mysql_query($sql)) { die ('Error getting table status (' . $sql . ' :: ' . mysql_error() . ')'); }
// Get the status array of this table
$table_info = mysql_fetch_array($result);
// Add them to the total results
$total_rows += $table_info[3];
$total_rows_average += $table_info[4];
$sizeo += $table_info[5];
}
// Function to calculate size of the file
function c2s($bs) {
if ($bs < 964) { return round($bs) . " Bytes"; }
else if ($bs < 1000000) { return round($bs/1024,2) . " KB" ; }
else { return round($bs/1048576,2) . " MB" ; }
}
// Echo the result!!!!!!!!!
echo "{$total_rows} rows in {$total_tables} tables";
echo "<br>Average size in each row: " . c2s($total_rows_average/$total_tables);
echo "<br>Average size in each table: " . c2s($sizeo/$total_tables);
echo "<br>Database size: " . c2s($sizeo);
// Close the connection
mysql_close();
?>`
sindijs at apollo dot lv
06-Sep-2005 05:21
`Get next auto_increment value:
<?
mysql_connect("localhost", "login", "passwd") or
die("Cannot connect: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("db_name");
$res = mysql_query("SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'table_name' ") or die(mysql_error());
$row_res = mysql_fetch_array($res);
echo $row_res[Auto_increment];
?>`
daveheslop (dave heslop)
07-May-2005 04:45
`Worth noting for beginners: using a row count to test for the existence of a table only works if the table actually contains data, otherwise the test will return false even if the table exists.`
wbphfox at xs4all dot nl
09-Sep-2003 09:55
`Here is a way to show al the tables and have the function to drop them...
<?php
echo "<p align=\"left\">";
//this is the connection file for the database....
$connectfile = "connect.php";
require $connectfile;
$dbname = 'DATABASE NAME';
$result = mysql_list_tables($dbname);
echo "<table width=\"75%\" border=\"0\">";
echo "<tr bgcolor=\"#993333\"> ";
echo "<td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\" color=\"#FFFFFF\">Table name:</font></td>";
echo "<td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-1\" color=\"#FFFFFF\">Delete?</font></td>";
echo "</tr>";
if (!$result) {
print "DB Error, could not list tables\n";
print 'MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error();
exit;
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
echo "<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">";
echo "<td>";
print "$row[0]\n";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?action=delete&table=";
print "$row[0]\n";
echo "\">Yes?</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
mysql_free_result($result);
//Delete
if($action=="delete")
{
$deleteIt=mysql_query("DROP TABLE $table");
if($deleteIt)
{
echo "The table \"";
echo "$table\" has been deleted with succes!<br>";
}
else
{
echo "An error has occured...please try again<br>";
}
}
?>`
thebitman at attbi dot com
07-May-2003 01:49
`okay everybody, the fastest, most accurate, safest method:
function mysql_table_exists($table, $link)
{
$exists = mysql_query("SELECT 1 FROM `$table` LIMIT 0", $link);
if ($exists) return true;
return false;
}
Note the "LIMIT 0", I mean come on, people, can't get much faster than that! :)
As far as a query goes, this does absolutely nothing. But it has the ability to fail if the table doesnt exist, and that's all you need!`
daevid at daevid dot com
17-Dec-2002 04:36
`I was in need of a way to create a database, complete with tables from a .sql file. Well, since PHP/mySQL doesn't allow that it seems, the next best idea was to create an empty template database and 'clone & rename it'. Guess what? There is no mysql_clone_db() function or any SQL 'CREATE DATABASE USING TEMPLATEDB' command. grrr...
So, this is the hack solution I came up with:
$V2DB = "V2_SL".$CompanyID;
$result = mysql_create_db($V2DB, $linkI);
if (!$result) $errorstring .= "Error creating ".$V2DB." database<BR>\n".mysql_errno($linkI).": ".mysql_error($linkI)."<BR>\n";
mysql_select_db ($V2DB, $linkI) or die ("Could not select ".$V2DB." Database");
//You must have already created the "V2_Template" database.
//This will make a clone of it, including data.
$tableResult = mysql_list_tables ("V2_Template");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($tableResult))
{
$tsql = "CREATE TABLE ".$V2DB.".".$row[0]." AS SELECT * FROM V2_Template.".$row[0];
echo $tsql."<BR>\n";
$tresult = mysql_query($tsql,$linkI);
if (!$tresult) $errorstring .= "Error creating ".$V2DB.".".$row[0]." table<BR>\n".mysql_errno($linkI).": ".mysql_error($linkI)."<BR>\n";
}`
cdarklock at darklock dot com
06-Dec-2002 08:03
`Actually, the initially posted SELECT COUNT(*) approach is flawless. SELECT COUNT(*) will provide one and only one row in response unless you can't select from the table at all. Even a brand new (empty) table responds with one row to tell you there are 0 records.
While other approaches here are certainly functional, the major problem comes up when you want to do something like check a database to ensure that all the tables you need exist, as I needed to do earlier today. I wrote a function called tables_needed() that would take an array of table names -- $check -- and return either an array of tables that did not exist, or FALSE if they were all there. With mysql_list_tables(), I came up with this in the central block of code (after validating parameters, opening a connection, selecting a database, and doing what most people would call far too much error checking):
if($result=mysql_list_tables($dbase,$conn))
{ // $count is the number of tables in the database
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
for($x=0;$x<$count;$x++)
{
$tables[$x]=mysql_tablename($result,$x);
}
mysql_free_result($result);
// LOTS more comparisons here
$exist=array_intersect($tables,$check);
$notexist=array_diff($exist,$check);
if(count($notexist)==0)
{
$notexist=FALSE;
}
}
The problem with this approach is that performance degrades with the number of tables in the database. Using the "SELECT COUNT(*)" approach, performance only degrades with the number of tables you *care* about:
// $count is the number of tables you *need*
$count=count($check);
for($x=0;$x<$count;$x++)
{
if(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ".$check[$x],$conn)==FALSE)
{
$notexist[count($notexist)]=$check[$x];
}
}
if(count($notexist)==0)
{
$notexist=FALSE;
}
While the increase in speed here means virtually nothing to the average user who has a database-driven backend on his personal web site to handle a guestbook and forum that might get a couple hundred hits a week, it means EVERYTHING to the professional who has to handle tens of millions of hits a day... where a single extra millisecond on the query turns into more than a full day of processing time. Developing good habits when they don't matter keeps you from having bad habits when they *do* matter.`
29-Oct-2002 05:42
`<?
/*
Function that returns whole size of a given MySQL database
Returns false if no db by that name is found
*/
function getdbsize($tdb) {
$db_host='localhost';
$db_usr='USER';
$db_pwd='XXXXXXXX';
$db = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_usr, $db_pwd) or die ("Error connecting to MySQL Server!\n");
mysql_select_db($tdb, $db);
$sql_result = "SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM " .$tdb;
$result = mysql_query($sql_result);
mysql_close($db);
if($result) {
$size = 0;
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$size = $size + $data["Data_length"] + $data["Index_length"];
}
return $size;
}
else {
return FALSE;
}
}
?>
<?
/*
Implementation example
*/
$tmp = getdbsize("DATABASE_NAME");
if (!$tmp) { echo "ERROR!"; }
else { echo $tmp; }
?>`
mail at thomas-hoerner dot de
04-Oct-2002 09:24
`You can also use mysql_fetch_object if you consider a specialty: The name of the object-var is
Tables_in_xxxxx
where xxxxx is the name of the database.
i.e. use
$result = mysql_list_tables($dbname);
$varname="Tables_in_".$dbname;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
echo $row->$varname;
};`
NewToPHP_Guy at Victoria dot NOSPAM dot com
02-Oct-2002 02:06
`The example by PHP-Guy to determine if a table exists is interesting and useful (thanx), except for one tiny detail. The function 'mysql_list_tables()' returns table names in lower case even when tables are created with mixed case. To get around this problem, add the 'strtolower()' function in the last line as follows:
return(in_array(strtolower($tableName), $tables));`
coffee at hayekheaven dot net
17-Jun-2002 05:48
`Even though php guy's solution is probably the fastest here's another one just for the heck of it...
I use this function to check whether a table exists. If not it's created.
mysql_connect("server","usr","pwd")
or die("Couldn't connect!");
mysql_select_db("mydb");
$tbl_exists = mysql_query("DESCRIBE sometable");
if (!$tbl_exists) {
mysql_query("CREATE TABLE sometable (id int(4) not null primary key,
somevalue varchar(50) not null)");
}`
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