I've tried this: <http://be.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-list-fields.php>, but there's too much detail here.

What I'm looking for is a function that returns an array of strings. This array should only contain the names of all columns that a certain table has.

So for instance, if I have a table with these columns:  

username | email | gender |age | married | number\_of\_children | street | province

I should get the same thing as if I did this: 

```
$vars = array('username','email','gender','age','married','number_of_children','street','province');

```

Is there a PHP function already that can do this? Or shall I need some SQL statements of my own?