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
>
>
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