How do I get column names from a given MySQL table?

Question

How do I get the column names of a table into a PHP array using the mysqli extension? I need to fetch the column names of any given table without fetching any data from the

Answer 1

You can use array_keys() to get all the keys of an array,

$myarray = array('key1' => 'a', 'key2' => 'b')
$x = array_keys($myarray);

The result you want can be obtained from $x

$x = array(0 => 'key1', 1 => 'key2');

Inorder to get the column names of a table,

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name LIMIT 1";
$ref = $result->query($sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($ref);
$x = array_keys($row);

now $x array contains the column names of the table