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How to write PHP script to delete data from an existing MySQL table?
We can use the SQL DELETE command with or without the WHERE CLAUSE into the PHP function – mysql_query(). This function will execute the SQL command in a similar way it is executed at the mysql> prompt. To illustrate it we are having the following example −
Example
In this example, we are writing a PHP script to delete a record from MySQL table named ‘tutorial_tbl’ whose tutorial_id as 3.
<?php
$dbhost = 'localhost:3036';
$dbuser = 'root';
$dbpass = 'rootpassword';
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if(! $conn ) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
$sql = 'DELETE FROM tutorials_tbl WHERE tutorial_id=3';
mysql_select_db('TUTORIALS');
$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
if(! $retval ) {
die('Could not delete data: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo "Deleted data successfully
";
mysql_close($conn);
?>
Updated on: 30-Jul-2019
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