hi, i had good luck the first time so i thought i'd try again,

i'm trying to grab the column names from a mysql table named grades. i know in the mysql monitor, i can type "explain grades;" and that brings up a list. can i do the same from php in order to fetch the row with field names?

any help is appreciated,
KurtM

i wanted to add that i had luck with the following code but didn't know if this would get me in trouble down the line using a simple increment:

(btw, using abstracted c++)
$get_columns=$new_db->query("explain grades");

while($row=$new_db->fetch_row($get_columns))
{
$i=0;
$column_name=$row[$i];
$display_columns .="$column_name<br>";
$i++;
}