Database abstraction?

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Hi Everyone!

I'm back with yet another question.... But getting closer to sounding like I know what I'm talking about and that's all thanks to all of you. A free beer (Or beverage of choice)* for everyone who has helped me over the years!

Here's my question... I have a program, where I want to take out the field names in a database table and display them... In other words instead of writing:
$Query ="SELECT First, Last, Middle, Add1 FROM mytable order by $order";

I want to write something more like:
$Query ="SELECT $FIELDNAMES FROM mytable order by $order";

So I need to know how to get the field names from the database so that I can populate $FIELDNAMES. I played a little bit and it looks like I might be able to get what I want by doing 2 queries...

$QueryFieldNames = "DESCRIBE $table";

And then some sort of a foreach or maybe a while to populate $FIELDNAMES? Maybe an array so I could do $FIELDNAMES['First'] if I needed to later.

then I can use my SELECT $FIELDNAMES FROM $table order by $order query to do my query...

Am I on the right path? Way off base? Not even in the ball park?

Hopefully it makes sense... Cause it's right on the edge of my knowledge so I'm not totally sure how to ask it right yet :)


*Assuming wife 2.0.198BETA approves...
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Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424-9337
www.raoset.com
japruim@xxxxxxxxxx




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