# odbc_tables

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

odbc_tables — Get the list of table names stored in a specific data source

### Description

resource odbc_tables ( resource `$connection_id` [, string `$qualifier` [, string `$owner` [, string `$name` [, string `$types` ]]]] )

Lists all tables in the requested range. Returns an ODBC result identifier containing the information or `FALSE` on failure.

The result set has the following columns:

- TABLE_QUALIFIER
- TABLE_OWNER
- TABLE_NAME
- TABLE_TYPE
- REMARKS

The result set is ordered by TABLE_TYPE, TABLE_QUALIFIER, TABLE_OWNER and TABLE_NAME.

The `owner` and `name` arguments accept search patterns ('%' to match zero or more characters and '_' to match a single character).

To support enumeration of qualifiers, owners, and table types, the following special semantics for the `qualifier` , `owner` , `name` , and `table_type` are available:

- If `qualifier` is a single percent character (%) and `owner` and `name` are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid qualifiers for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_QUALIFIER column contain NULLs.)
- If `owner` is a single percent character (%) and `qualifier` and `name` are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid owners for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_OWNER column contain NULLs.)
- If `table_type` is a single percent character (%) and `qualifier` , `owner` and `name` are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid table types for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_TYPE column contain NULLs.)

If `table_type` is not an empty string, it must contain a list of comma-separated values for the types of interest; each value may be enclosed in single quotes (') or unquoted. For example, "'TABLE','VIEW'" or "TABLE, VIEW". If the data source does not support a specified table type, odbc_tables() does not return any results for that type.

See also odbc_tableprivileges() to retrieve associated privileges.