MySQL ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS

I wrote a MySQL function and procedure that will add a database column unless it exists already. The following code would add 3 fields to the template table, unless they already exist:

-- add fields to template table to support ignoring extra data 
-- at the top/bottom of every page

CALL addFieldIfNotExists ('template', 'firstPageHeaderEndY', 'INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0');
CALL addFieldIfNotExists ('template', 'pageHeaderEndY', 'INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0');
CALL addFieldIfNotExists ('template', 'pageFooterBeginY', 'INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 792');

Here is the actual code for the above procedure:

DELIMITER $$

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS addFieldIfNotExists 
$$

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS isFieldExisting 
$$

CREATE FUNCTION isFieldExisting (table_name_IN VARCHAR(100), field_name_IN VARCHAR(100)) 
RETURNS INT
RETURN (
    SELECT COUNT(COLUMN_NAME) 
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns 
    WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = DATABASE() 
    AND TABLE_NAME = table_name_IN 
    AND COLUMN_NAME = field_name_IN
)
$$

CREATE PROCEDURE addFieldIfNotExists (
    IN table_name_IN VARCHAR(100)
    , IN field_name_IN VARCHAR(100)
    , IN field_definition_IN VARCHAR(100)
)
BEGIN

    -- http://javajon.blogspot.com/2012/10/mysql-alter-table-add-column-if-not.html

    SET @isFieldThere = isFieldExisting(table_name_IN, field_name_IN);
    IF (@isFieldThere = 0) THEN
    
        SET @ddl = CONCAT('ALTER TABLE ', table_name_IN);
        SET @ddl = CONCAT(@ddl, ' ', 'ADD COLUMN') ;
        SET @ddl = CONCAT(@ddl, ' ', field_name_IN);
        SET @ddl = CONCAT(@ddl, ' ', field_definition_IN);

        PREPARE stmt FROM @ddl;
        EXECUTE stmt;
        DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
        
    END IF;

END;
$$