How can PHP be used to output all tables in a MySQL database?

To output all tables in a MySQL database using PHP, you can query the information_schema database to retrieve a list of all tables. You can then loop through the result set and display the table names. 

<?php
// Connect to MySQL database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database_name";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Query to get all tables in the database
$sql = "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '$dbname'";

$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // Output all table names
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "Table name: " . $row["table_name"] . "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

$conn->close();
?>

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PHP MySQL database output tables query

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