PHP Tutorial: Print All MySQL Database Tables & Fields

<?php
/****************
* File: displaytables.php
* Date: 1.13.2009
* Author: design1online.com, LLC
* Purpose: display all table structure for a specific database
****************/

//connection variables
$host = "localhost";
$database = "your_db_name";
$user = "your_username";
$pass = "your_pass";

//connection to the database
mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass)
or die ('cannot connect to the database: ' . mysql_error());

//select the database
mysql_select_db($database)
or die ('cannot select database: ' . mysql_error());

//loop to show all the tables and fields
$loop = mysql_query("SHOW tables FROM $database")
or die ('cannot select tables');

while($table = mysql_fetch_array($loop))
{

    echo "
        <table cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\" border=\"0\" width=\"75%\">
            <tr bgcolor=\"#666666\">
                <td colspan=\"5\" align=\"center\"><b><font color=\"#FFFFFF\">" . $table[0] . "</font></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Field</td>
                <td>Type</td>
                <td>Key</td>
                <td>Default</td>
                <td>Extra</td>
            </tr>";

    $i = 0; //row counter
    $row = mysql_query("SHOW columns FROM " . $table[0])
    or die ('cannot select table fields');

    while ($col = mysql_fetch_array($row))
    {
        echo "<tr";

        if ($i % 2 == 0)
            echo " bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"";

        echo ">
            <td>" . $col[0] . "</td>
            <td>" . $col[1] . "</td>
            <td>" . $col[2] . "</td>
            <td>" . $col[3] . "</td>
            <td>" . $col[4] . "</td>
        </tr>";

        $i++;
    } //end row loop

    echo "</table><br/><br/>";
} //end table loop
?>

MSSQL Tutorial: Select All Tables & Fields

SQL: select table_name, column_name, data_type, character_maximum_length, is_nullable from
information_schema.columns where table_name in (select name from sysobjects where xtype=’U’) order by table_name