Question

I’m trying to create a SQL table in PHP using the following code:

$sql = "CREATE TABLE `$DBName`.`$login`_clients  (
  ClientID int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ClientID`),
  AgentClients varchar(15),
  ClientTotal int
)";     

The botton script runs fine and saves the database as my $login query. I wanted to save the table as $login_clients however. Ex. $login="Fred", then the table would be named Fred_clients. I have tried a few different methods of combining variables with text but can’t get the format down. Any suggestions?

$sql = "CREATE TABLE `$DBName`.`$login`_clients  (
  ClientID int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ClientID`),
  AgentClients varchar(15),
  ClientTotal int
)";    

Answer 1

You just have your back tick in the wrong place, it should go after _clients. The problem you likely ran into was that the PHP interpreter then thought your variable was called $login_clients instead of $login, which can be solved by wrapping the variable in curly braces {}.

$sql = "CREATE TABLE `{$DBName}`.`{$login}_clients`  (
  ClientID int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ClientID`),
  AgentClients varchar(15),
  ClientTotal int
)";