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Displaying mySQL table structures in PHP

You can get information about tables using SHOW TABLE STATUS query. This query gives you a detailed info about all tables in your database. We can loop results:

• Name
• Engine
• Version
• Row_format
• Rows
• Avg_row_length
• Data_length
• Max_data_length
• Index_length
• Data_free
• Auto_increment
• Create_time
• Update_time
• Check_time
• Collation
• Checksum
• Create_options
• Comment

We can re-write this query to find only structure about a tables:

SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE ’products’ 

If you wish to learn  AutoIndex number, here's the comple code written in PHP: 

     <?php
    $qquery = mysql_query("SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'products'");
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($qquery);
    $next_increment = $row[’Auto_increment’];
    echo "Next increment number is " . $row["Auto_increment"];
    ?>