Check if column exist in Mysql table via php

Question

I created mysql tables and there I have put some columns.

Now I want to check that a certain column exists in the database via php.

Like this:

Answer 1

You can use mysql_list_fields and mysql_num_fields to get columns of a table

$fields = mysql_list_fields('database_name', 'table_name');
$columns = mysql_num_fields($fields);