<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_list_dbs</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_insert_id" HREF="function.mysql-insert-id.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_list_fields" HREF="function.mysql-list-fields.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-insert-id.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-list-fields.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-list-dbs" ></A >mysql_list_dbs</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN59137" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_list_dbs -- List databases available on a MySQL server </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN59140" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_list_dbs</B > ( [resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_list_dbs()</B > will return a result pointer containing the databases available from the current mysql daemon. Use the <A HREF="function.mysql-tablename.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_tablename()</B ></A > function to traverse this result pointer, or any function for result tables. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN59152" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >mysql_list_dbs()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?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"; } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The above example would produce the following output: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >database1 database2 database3 ...</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The above code would just as easily work with <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_row()</B ></A > or other similar functions. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > For downward compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql_listdbs()</B > can also be used. This is deprecated however. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.mysql-db-name.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_db_name()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-insert-id.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-list-fields.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_insert_id</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_list_fields</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >