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How would I fetch the name of all the fields in a table of a database using PHP Data Objects?

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to do this you have to query the db schema. In MySQL, there is a system generated database called information_schema.

from within it, you could run:

SELECT column_name
FROM COLUMNS
WHERE table_name = 'desired_table'
AND table_schema = 'database_name'
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I also have a lot of databases with tables that have a certain tablename e.g. browers.. and it returns all of that data..
SELECT column_name FROM COLUMNS WHERE table_name = 'desired_table' AND table_schema = 'database_name'

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