TABLE-EXISTS.PHP

I find this little script very useful for web applications that need to automatically generate tables. I wrote it because I felt it was wrong to have a script execute create table SQL statements for tables that already existed.

<?
function Table_Exists($table_name)
         {
         $Table = mysql_query("show tables like '" .
                  $table_name . "'");

         if(mysql_fetch_row($Table) === false)
            return(false);

         return(true);
         }
?>