Check if a database table exists using PHP/PDO

Question

I want to check if a table with a specific name exists in a database I\'ve connected to using PHP and PDO.

It has to work on all database backends, like MySQL, SQLi

Answer 1

As part of your project, create a schema view.

For Oracle it would be something like

SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM ALL_TABLES

For Mysql:

SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = 'mydbname'

ETC..

And then run a query in your code against the view.