surion Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 hi, i m pretty sure this already exists, tough i just don't find it. what i m looking for is a script that can search for a value trough an entire database, not depending on table names or field names. for example lets say i have "a database", i do not know what fields or tables are in there. i know somewhere there is a field with the value "blablabla", the code should return a tablename and a fieldname where the value "blablabla" was found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpesanka Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 You'd want to start with a SHOW TABLES, then loop through the resulting tables and do a DESCRIBE on each. Dump the table names and fields into a 2d array, and then loop through each table and do SELECT count(*) FROM $tableName WHERE $fieldName = $value. Make sense? It should be pretty straightforward. Not sure if there is a more efficient way of doing it, but that should certainly work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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