Question

I’m going to write PHP script, that uses table prefix for MySQL tables. Should I write all of requests like for example

$db_query='select * from '.$tbl_prefix.'sometable;';

or it’s possible to set some variable, that will add this prefix to all queries?
For example, I’m performing request

$db_query='select * from sometable;';

and MAGIC adds prefix to table itself, so for MySQL query will look like

select * from pref_sometable;

Answer 1

There’s no MySQL command to do that, you must implement it in your code just like you do at first. So:

$db_query='select * from '.$tbl_prefix.'sometable;';

Is fine.

If you don’t want to add a prefix on each query, you can create an object like this:

class database {
    function select($qry,$database) {
        $db_query="select " . $qry . " from myprefix_" . $database;
        // $res = query($db_query);
        return $res;
    }
}

$db_query=database->select("*","sometable");
// echo $db_query;
$db_query=database->select("playernick","sometable");
// echo $db_query;

That’s not 100% PHP, it’s just and idea so you can get it.