Select all columns except one in MySQL?

Question

I\'m trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this?

EDIT: There are 53 columns i

Answer 1

I wanted this too so I created a function instead.

public function getColsExcept($table,$remove){
    $res =mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM $table");

    while($arr = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)){
        $cols[] = $arr['Field'];
    }
    if(is_array($remove)){
        $newCols = array_diff($cols,$remove);
        return "`".implode("`,`",$newCols)."`";
    }else{
        $length = count($cols);
        for($i=0;$i<$length;$i++){
            if($cols[$i] == $remove)
                unset($cols[$i]);
        }
        return "`".implode("`,`",$cols)."`";
    }
}

So how it works is that you enter the table, then a column you don't want or as in an array: array("id","name","whatevercolumn")

So in select you could use it like this:

mysql_query("SELECT ".$db->getColsExcept('table',array('id','bigtextcolumn'))." FROM table");

or

mysql_query("SELECT ".$db->getColsExcept('table','bigtextcolumn')." FROM table");