Question

I’m having a problem trying to truncate the ‘requestID’ field from my requests table.

This is my code.

<?php
        include 'mysql_connect.php';
     USE fypmysqldb;
     TRUNCATE TABLE requestID;
     echo "Request ID table has been truncated";     
?>

I’m using server side scripting so no idea what error is coming back.

Anyone got an idea?

Answer 1

You aren’t executing queries, you’re just putting SQL code inside PHP which is invalid. This assumes you are using the mysql_*() api (which I kind of suspect after viewing one of your earlier questions), but can be adjusted if you are using MySQLi or PDO.

 // Assuming a successful connection was made in this inclusion:
 include 'mysql_connect.php';
 // Select the database
 mysql_select_db('fypmysqldb');
 // Execute the query.
 $result = mysql_query('TRUNCATE TABLE requestID');

 if ($result) {
   echo "Request ID table has been truncated";  
 }
 else echo "Something went wrong: " . mysql_error();