Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > I am working on data migration for one mysql db to another using PHP. > How do > I check if a particular table has a particular column. If not alter... > [/snip] > > Use DESCRIBE TABLE; > Then you'd have to parse the output - how about SELECT <column> FROM <table> LIMIT 1 ? The query will fail if the column doesn't exist. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php