Question

Let us say we’ve database table my_table with the following structure

CREATE TABLE `my_table` (
`title` text,
`name` text
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
INSERT INTO `admin` VALUES ('my title', 'my name');

Now i want to update it to be with 1 extra field slogan to be like this

CREATE TABLE `my_table` (
`title` text,
`name` text,
`slogan` text
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
INSERT INTO `admin` VALUES ('my title', 'my name', 'my slogan');

For sure if it 10 or even 100 i can do it using regex with any text editor but i it too huge for my processor to do it so i’ve been thinking to use PHP to update my table while it on my hosting server.

I’ve been thinking to use

$q1 = "CREATE TABLE `my_table`(
`slogan` text )";
mysql_query($q1) or die(mysql_error()." at row ".__LINE__);

but given me error my_table already exist
so any help ~ thanks

Answer 1

What you need is

ALTER TABLE `my_table` ADD COLUMN `slogan` text;

followed by lots of

UPDATE `my_table` SET `slogan`='...' WHERE `title`=' ... ';