MySQLi Table Exists

Question

In PHP, what would be the best way of seeing if a table exists?

This is what I am using so far

public function TableExists($table) {
    $res = $thi         


        

Answer 1

An alternative to the SHOW TABLES approach from other answers is using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA like this:

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
 WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'your_database_name' AND TABLE_NAME = 'tablename';