Question

My server is on hostgator running on a linux centOS.

I’m simply trying to create a table within my database and I figured out how to get the table to get created. Although when I add the AUTO_INCREMENT setting the code doesn’t execute and the table isn’t created.

Why would this be and how can I correct it?

Here is my code:

$members2_table = "CREATE TABLE ninja08_codin.members2(
        id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
        first_name VARCHAR(40),
        last_name VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
        email VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
        date_joined TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
        cred VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL)";

Answer 1

To use AUTO_INCREMENT you may have to assign the column as a primary key:

$members2_table = "CREATE TABLE ninja08_codin.members2(
        id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
        first_name VARCHAR(40),
        last_name VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
        email VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
        date_joined TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
        cred VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY (id))";