How to dump mysql table structure without data with a SQL query?

Question

I need to export a mysql table, but it has like 5gb of entries, so I only want the structure. I am trying to do it from a simple php doing a sql query, how can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use SHOW CREATE TABLE for this.

Shows the CREATE TABLE statement that creates the given table. The statement requires the SELECT privilege for the table. As of MySQL 5.0.1, this statement also works with views.

E.g.:

SHOW CREATE TABLE MyTablename