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mysql_list_dbs

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(PHP 4, PHP 5)

List databases available on a MySQL server

5-4-0 SQL Query: SHOW DATABASES

Description

mysql_list_dbs(resource $link_identifier = NULL): resource

Returns a result pointer containing the databases available from the current mysql daemon.

Parameters

Return Values

Returns a result pointer resource on success, or false on failure. Use the mysql_tablename() function to traverse this result pointer, or any function for result tables, such as mysql_fetch_array().

Examples

mysql_list_dbs() example

php

<?php
// Usage without mysql_list_dbs()
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
$res = mysql_query("SHOW DATABASES");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
    echo $row['Database'] . "\n";
}

// Deprecated as of PHP 5.4.0
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
$db_list = mysql_list_dbs($link);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($db_list)) {
     echo $row->Database . "\n";
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

output

database1
database2
database3

Notes

Note

Alias mysql_listdbs()