RE: [PHP-DB] Get MySQL table schema for a dump
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 27 Feb 2003 03:48:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] Get MySQL table schema for a dump | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> Is there was to get a database's table schema?
>
> For example, I want to be able to click on a link and then create a
.txt
> file of a table (or even better a databases) schema.
>
> So far, I have a simple function which will output
>
> INSERT INTO table (x,x,x,) VALUES(x,x,x);
> INSERT INTO table (x,x,x,) VALUES(x,x,x);
> INSERT INTO table (x,x,x,) VALUES(x,x,x);
> INSERT INTO table (x,x,x,) VALUES(x,x,x);
> etc.
>
> but what I'm missing is
>
> CREATE table blah, blah, blah
>
> **that is what I want to get.
SHOW CREATE TABLE <table_name>;
---John W. Holmes...
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