diff --git a/classes/Database/PDO.php b/classes/Database/PDO.php
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+<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct access allowed.');
+
+class Database_PDO extends lnApp_Database_PDO {}
+?>
diff --git a/classes/lnApp/Database/PDO.php b/classes/lnApp/Database/PDO.php
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+<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct access allowed.');
+
+/**
+ * PDO MySQL database connection.
+ *
+ * Modified to provide list_columns().
+ *
+ * @package    lnApp
+ * @category   Modifications
+ * @author     Deon George
+ * @copyright  (c) 2014 Deon George
+ * @license    http://dev.leenooks.net/license.html
+ */
+abstract class lnApp_Database_PDO extends Kohana_Database_PDO {
+	public function list_columns($table, $like = NULL, $add_prefix = TRUE)
+	{
+		// Quote the table name
+		$table = ($add_prefix === TRUE) ? $this->quote_table($table) : $table;
+
+		if (is_string($like))
+		{
+			// Search for column names
+			$result = $this->query(Database::SELECT, 'SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM '.$table.' LIKE '.$this->quote($like), FALSE);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			// Find all column names
+			$result = $this->query(Database::SELECT, 'SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM '.$table, FALSE);
+		}
+
+		$count = 0;
+		$columns = array();
+		foreach ($result as $row)
+		{
+			list($type, $length) = $this->_parse_type($row['Type']);
+
+			$column = $this->datatype($type);
+
+			$column['column_name']      = $row['Field'];
+			$column['column_default']   = $row['Default'];
+			$column['data_type']        = $type;
+			$column['is_nullable']      = ($row['Null'] == 'YES');
+			$column['ordinal_position'] = ++$count;
+
+			switch ($type) //was $column['type']
+			{
+				case 'float':
+					if (isset($length))
+					{
+						list($column['numeric_precision'], $column['numeric_scale']) = explode(',', $length);
+					}
+				break;
+				case 'int':
+					if (isset($length))
+					{
+						// MySQL attribute
+						$column['display'] = $length;
+					}
+				break;
+				case 'string':
+					switch ($column['data_type'])
+					{
+						case 'binary':
+						case 'varbinary':
+							$column['character_maximum_length'] = $length;
+						break;
+						case 'char':
+						case 'varchar':
+							$column['character_maximum_length'] = $length;
+						case 'text':
+						case 'tinytext':
+						case 'mediumtext':
+						case 'longtext':
+							$column['collation_name'] = $row['Collation'];
+						break;
+						case 'enum':
+						case 'set':
+							$column['collation_name'] = $row['Collation'];
+							$column['options'] = explode('\',\'', substr($length, 1, -1));
+						break;
+					}
+				break;
+			}
+
+			// MySQL attributes
+			$column['comment']      = $row['Comment'];
+			$column['extra']        = $row['Extra'];
+			$column['key']          = $row['Key'];
+			$column['privileges']   = $row['Privileges'];
+
+			$columns[$row['Field']] = $column;
+		}
+
+		return $columns;
+	}
+}