Well, did you try looping though tables with mysql_fetch_array($tables)? But, how 'bout mysql_list_tables()?
Cheers - Miles Thompson PS There's a bunch of other interesting stuff relating to database manipulation there too. /mt At 11:48 AM 1/12/2002 -0800, Chris wrote: >I'm trying to display the tables in my database using $tables = >mysql('mydb", "SHOW TABLES FROM mydbname") but this statement doesn't >seem to behave like selecting records from a table. Does this query >return an array of table names? If I use something like $records = >mysql('mydb", "SELECT * FROM sometable) everything works fine. There >must be something I'm missing about the SHOW query. > >Thanks >Chris Williams > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]