MySQL in a Nutshell

Name

mysql_stat( )

Synopsis

mysql_stat([connection])

This returns the status of the server for the current MySQL connection, but you also can use it to get the status for another connection. The function returns, as a space-separated list, the flush tables, open tables, queries, queries per second, threads, and uptime for the server. This function is available starting with Version 4.3 of PHP.

...
$connection = mysql_connect('localhost',
                            'jacinta', 'richardson');
$info = explode(' ', mysql_stat($connection));
print_r($info);
...

Using the explode( ) PHP function, the elements of the space-separated values contained in the associative array generated by mysql_stat( ) are listed along with their respective keys.