enum and set possible values

I'm looking here at the mysql functions for PHP4.0.4 and I'm not finding what I seek... I see that mysql_fetch_field() will get information about a field in the result set from a mysql_db_query(). What I'm wanting to find out is what the possible values are for an enum or a set. So if I have an enum with possible values "Yes" and "No" or a set with possible values "Single", "Married", "Divorced", "Widowed", I seek a function that will return an array of strings containing those possible values. Does such a function exist? I suppose if not it would be possible to write one from the output of a "show columns from X" query... Thanks! -Michael -- No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816