Finding out if a table exists

Is there a way of finding if a table exists with only one command in MySQL? I've looked through the MySQL functions, and the closest I've gotten to what I need is mysql_list_tables or mysql_tablename (I'll have to check into these a little more), but I was hopefully looking for something that returns a boolean value, and to be able to use it like: if(mysql_table_exists("tablename")) { ... } Any ideas, short of creating my own function? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com