A very useful solution here for SQLite3. Because the OP does not indicate MySQL specifically and there was an attempt to use some solutions on SQLite.

    $table_name = 'content_containers';
    $container_result = $connect->query("PRAGMA table_info(" . $table_name . ")");
    $container_result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);


    foreach ($container_result as $conkey => $convalue)
    {

        $elements[$convalue['name']] = $convalue['name'];

    }

This returns an array. Since this is a direct information dump you'll need to iterate over and filter the results to get something like this:

Array
(
    [ccid] => ccid
    [administration_title] => administration_title
    [content_type_id] => content_type_id
    [author_id] => author_id
    [date_created] => date_created
    [language_id] => language_id
    [publish_date] => publish_date
    [status] => status
    [relationship_ccid] => relationship_ccid
    [url_alias] => url_alias
)

This is particularly nice to have when the table is empty.

A very useful solution here for SQLite3. Because the OP does not indicate MySQL specifically and there was a failed attempt to use some solutions on SQLite.

    $table_name = 'content_containers';
    $container_result = $connect->query("PRAGMA table_info(" . $table_name . ")");
    $container_result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);


    foreach ($container_result as $conkey => $convalue)
    {

        $elements[$convalue['name']] = $convalue['name'];

    }

This returns an array. Since this is a direct information dump you'll need to iterate over and filter the results to get something like this:

Array
(
    [ccid] => ccid
    [administration_title] => administration_title
    [content_type_id] => content_type_id
    [author_id] => author_id
    [date_created] => date_created
    [language_id] => language_id
    [publish_date] => publish_date
    [status] => status
    [relationship_ccid] => relationship_ccid
    [url_alias] => url_alias
)

This is particularly nice to have when the table is empty.