How can I check if a MySQL table exists with PHP?

Question

As simple in theory as it sounds I\'ve done a fair amount of research and am having trouble figuring this out.

How can I check if a MySQL table exists and if it does

Answer 1

SHOW TABLES LIKE 'TableName'

If you have ANY results, the table exists.

To use this approach in PDO:

$pdo         = new \PDO(/*...*/);
$result      = $pdo->query("SHOW TABLES LIKE 'tableName'");
$tableExists = $result !== false && $result->rowCount() > 0;

To use this approach with DEPRECATED mysql_query

$result      = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES LIKE 'tableName'");
$tableExists = mysql_num_rows($result) > 0;