Question: I am having problems with the following statement, I know its probably something small and silly but I cant seem to find the solution.

```
$field_sql = 'SHOW FIELDS FROM '.$table  '  WHERE FIELD '=''.$column';

```

Answer: 
You're missing a dot and have quotes when you don't need them:

```
$field_sql = 'SHOW FIELDS FROM ' . $table . ' WHERE FIELD = ' . $column;
                                          ^               ^^^          ^
                                          Missing         Removed extra quotes

```

However, for SQL string values, you probably want the quotes, so you can use different quotes than the ones you're using to denote the string:

```
$field_sql = 'SHOW FIELDS FROM `' . $table . '` WHERE FIELD = "' . $column . '"';

```

I also added backticks for the table name.
```
$field_sql = 'SHOW FIELDS FROM ' . $table . ' WHERE FIELD = '.$column;

```