diff --git a/htdocs/sql/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php b/htdocs/sql/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php
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+<?php
+/* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */
+/**
+ *
+ * @version $Id: tbl_info.inc.php 11335 2008-06-21 14:01:54Z lem9 $
+ */
+if (! defined('PHPMYADMIN')) {
+    exit;
+}
+
+/**
+ *
+ */
+require_once './libraries/Table.class.php';
+
+/**
+ * extracts table properties from create statement
+ *
+ * @todo this should be recoded as functions,
+ * to avoid messing with global variables
+ */
+
+/**
+ * requirements
+ */
+require_once './libraries/common.inc.php';
+
+// Check parameters
+PMA_checkParameters(array('db', 'table'));
+
+/**
+ * Defining global variables, in case this script is included by a function.
+ * This is necessary because this script can be included by libraries/header.inc.php.
+ */
+global $showtable, $tbl_is_view, $tbl_type, $show_comment, $tbl_collation,
+       $table_info_num_rows, $auto_increment;
+
+/**
+ * Gets table informations
+ */
+// Seems we need to do this in MySQL 5.0.2,
+// otherwise error #1046, no database selected
+PMA_DBI_select_db($GLOBALS['db']);
+
+// The 'show table' statement works correct since 3.23.03
+$table_info_result   = PMA_DBI_query(
+    'SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE \'' . PMA_sqlAddslashes($GLOBALS['table'], true) . '\';',
+    null, PMA_DBI_QUERY_STORE);
+
+// need this test because when we are creating a table, we get 0 rows
+// from the SHOW TABLE query
+// and we don't want to mess up the $tbl_type coming from the form
+
+if ($table_info_result && PMA_DBI_num_rows($table_info_result) > 0) {
+    $showtable           = PMA_DBI_fetch_assoc($table_info_result);
+    PMA_DBI_free_result($table_info_result);
+    unset($table_info_result);
+
+    if (!isset($showtable['Type']) && isset($showtable['Engine'])) {
+        $showtable['Type'] =& $showtable['Engine'];
+    }
+    if (PMA_Table::isView($GLOBALS['db'], $GLOBALS['table'])) {
+        $tbl_is_view     = true;
+        $tbl_type        = $GLOBALS['strView'];
+        $show_comment    = null;
+    } else {
+        $tbl_is_view     = false;
+        $tbl_type        = isset($showtable['Type'])
+            ? strtoupper($showtable['Type'])
+            : '';
+        // a new comment could be coming from tbl_operations.php
+        // and we want to show it in the header
+        if (isset($submitcomment) && isset($comment)) {
+            $show_comment = $comment;
+        } else {
+            $show_comment    = isset($showtable['Comment'])
+                ? $showtable['Comment']
+                : '';
+        }
+    }
+    $tbl_collation       = empty($showtable['Collation'])
+        ? ''
+        : $showtable['Collation'];
+
+    if (null === $showtable['Rows']) {
+        $showtable['Rows']   = PMA_Table::countRecords($GLOBALS['db'],
+            $showtable['Name'], true, true);
+    }
+    $table_info_num_rows = isset($showtable['Rows']) ? $showtable['Rows'] : 0;
+    $auto_increment      = isset($showtable['Auto_increment'])
+        ? $showtable['Auto_increment']
+        : '';
+
+    $create_options      = isset($showtable['Create_options'])
+        ? explode(' ', $showtable['Create_options'])
+        : array();
+
+    // export create options by its name as variables into gloabel namespace
+    // f.e. pack_keys=1 becomes available as $pack_keys with value of '1'
+    unset($pack_keys);
+    foreach ($create_options as $each_create_option) {
+        $each_create_option = explode('=', $each_create_option);
+        if (isset($each_create_option[1])) {
+            $$each_create_option[0]    = $each_create_option[1];
+        }
+    }
+    // we need explicit DEFAULT value here (different from '0')
+    $pack_keys = (!isset($pack_keys) || strlen($pack_keys) == 0) ? 'DEFAULT' : $pack_keys;
+    unset($create_options, $each_create_option);
+} // end if
+?>