diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 02341ddca..526690547 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
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+2003-01-21 Robin Johnson  <robbat2@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3: checkType function
+
 2003-01-21 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/catalan-*.inc.php3: Updates, thanks to Xavier Navarro (xavin).
 
diff --git a/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3 b/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
index 14d7b820a..ebbe7b43f 100644
--- a/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
@@ -594,6 +594,30 @@ if (!defined('PMA_SQP_LIB_INCLUDED')) {
         return $sql_array;
     } // end of the "PMA_SQP_parse()" function
 
+   /**
+    * Checks for token types being what we want...
+    *
+    * @param  string String of type that we have
+    * @param  string String of type that we want
+    * 
+    * @return boolean result of check
+    * 
+    * @access private
+    */
+    function PMA_SQP_typeCheck($toCheck, $whatWeWant) 
+    {
+        $typeSeperator = '_';
+        if(strcmp($whatWeWant, $toCheck) == 0) {
+            return TRUE;
+        } else {
+            if(strpos($whatWeWant, $typeSeperator) === FALSE) {
+                return strncmp($whatWeWant, $toCheck , strpos($toCheck, $typeSeperator)) == 0;
+            } else {
+                return FALSE;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
 
     /**
      * Analyzes SQL queries