Re: checking whether a table exists

You can try this, then see if your table exists within the array.

http://www.milesj.me/blog/read/75/Retrieving-Tables-Within-Your-Cake-Database

On Feb 1, 8:27 am, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> Hi
>
> is this a correct way of checking whether a table exists?
>
>         function check_table_exists($table) {
>                 $dbo = $this->getDataSource();
>                 $result = $dbo->_execute('DESCRIBE '.$table);
>                 return !empty($result);
>         }
>
> thanks in advance
>         Lorenzo
>
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