I want to check if a table with a specific name exists in a database I’ve connected to using PHP and PDO.
It has to work on all database backends, like MySQL, SQLite, etc.
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I want to check if a table with a specific name exists in a database I’ve connected to using PHP and PDO.
It has to work on all database backends, like MySQL, SQLite, etc.
Do:
and then catch the error. If you don’t get any error, but resultset with one column containing “1”, then the table exists.