Creating a DB only if it doesn't exist

[Anon]

Hi everyone
I know there is a way to acomplish the above but can't remember how.
Is there a specific PHP function for this or an MySQL command I can pop into a mysql_query() function?

Cheers

Nick

[Anon]

From the most obvious link in the mysql doc

http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/R/CREATE_DATABASE.html