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mysql_list_dbs

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mysql_list_dbs -- List databases available on a MySQL server

Description

resource mysql_list_dbs ( [resource link_identifier])

mysql_list_dbs will return a result pointer containing the databases available from the current mysql daemon. Use the mysql_tablename() function to traverse this result pointer, or any function for result tables, such as mysql_fetch_array().

Example 1. mysql_list_dbs() example

<?php

$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 would produce the following output:

database1

database2

database3

....

Note: The above code would just as easily work with mysql_fetch_row() or other similar functions.

For downward compatibility mysql_listdbs() can also be used. This is deprecated however.