PHP get MySQL Columns

I need to build a PHP class which allows me to retrieve the names of all columns of a certain MySQL Database.

Suppose I had the following strucutre:

| ID | Name | Surname | Age | Sex |

My script should provide an array as:

0 => ID
1 => Name
2 => Surname
3 => Age
4 => Sex
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Ideas? :)

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$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM sometable");
print_r($result);

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Use

DESCRIBE TableName

or

SHOW COLUMNS FROM TableName

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You can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMNS table, e.g. (using PDO) :

$stmt = $pdo->prepare('
    SELECT
        COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, IS_NULLABLE, COLUMN_DEFAULT
    FROM
        INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
    WHERE
        table_name=:tablename
        AND table_schema=:databasename
');
$stmt->execute( array(':tablename'=>'foo', ':databasename'=>'bar') );