Check if a column exists in the given table.
$table: The name of the table in drupal (no prefixing).
$name: The name of the column.
TRUE if the given column exists, otherwise FALSE.
public function fieldExists($table, $column) {
$condition = $this
->buildTableNameCondition($table);
$condition
->condition('column_name', $column);
$condition
->compile($this->connection, $this);
// Normally, we would heartily discourage the use of string
// concatenation for conditionals like this however, we
// couldn't use db_select() here because it would prefix
// information_schema.tables and the query would fail.
// Don't use {} around information_schema.columns table.
return (bool) $this->connection
->query("SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.columns WHERE " . (string) $condition, $condition
->arguments())
->fetchField();
}