Find the number of columns in a table

Question

It is possible to find the number of rows in a table:

select count(*) from tablename

Is it possible to find the number of columns in a tabl

Answer 1

It is possible to find the number of columns in a table just by using 3 simple lines of PHP code.

$sql="SELECT * FROM table";
$query=mysqli_query($connect_dude,$sql);    
$num=mysqli_num_fields($query);

$num would return the number of columns on a given table in this case.

Hopefully,it would help others.