Can PHP PDO Statements accept the table or column name as parameter?

Why can't I pass the table name to a prepared PDO statement? $stmt = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM :table WHERE 1'); if ($stmt->execute(array(':table' => 'users'))) { var_dump($stmt->fetchAll()); } Is there another safe way to insert a table name into a SQL query? With safe, I mean that I don't want to do $sql = "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE 1"