Question

My current project is about doing some changes in an already build web application (PHP/MySQL). For displaying data, the previous developer used views. I got the app on my computer in order to get familiar with it and I can’t seem to make those views work (I don’t get any output in the app).

I searched the web for this an there seems to be a problem when you create a view with one database user and the that user no longer exists.

Anyone who got into this issue before? How can this be solved?

Answer 1

If you’re importing the views from SQL dump file, they are probably defined like this

CREATE DEFINER = 'userWhoDoesNotExist@thisServer' VIEW viewName AS ....

Try removing the DEFINER = part, and the view will be created using currenct user account.