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This document discusses how to delete data from a MySQL table using the DELETE statement in SQL. It provides examples of deleting a record with a specific ID from a table called "MyGuests" using MySQLi and PDO in PHP. The DELETE statement removes records that match the WHERE clause, and if no WHERE clause is specified, all records will be deleted.

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PHP MySQL Delete Data

This document discusses how to delete data from a MySQL table using the DELETE statement in SQL. It provides examples of deleting a record with a specific ID from a table called "MyGuests" using MySQLi and PDO in PHP. The DELETE statement removes records that match the WHERE clause, and if no WHERE clause is specified, all records will be deleted.

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Delete Data From a MySQL Table Using


MySQLi and PDO
The DELETE statement is used to delete records from a table:

DELETE FROM table_name


WHERE some_column = some_value

Notice the WHERE clause in the DELETE syntax: The WHERE clause specifies which record or
records that should be deleted. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records will be deleted!

To learn more about SQL, please visit our SQL tutorial.

Let's look at the "MyGuests" table:

id firstname lastname email reg_date

1 John Doe [email protected] 2014-10-22 14:26:15

2 Mary Moe [email protected] 2014-10-23 10:22:30

3 Julie Dooley [email protected] 2014-10-26 10:48:23


The following examples delete the record with id=3 in the "MyGuests" table:

Example (MySQLi Object-oriented)

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
  die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// sql to delete a record


$sql = "DELETE FROM MyGuests WHERE id=3";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {


  echo "Record deleted successfully";
} else {
  echo "Error deleting record: " . $conn->error;
}

$conn->close();
?>
Example (MySQLi Procedural)

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";

// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
  die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

// sql to delete a record


$sql = "DELETE FROM MyGuests WHERE id=3";

if (mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
  echo "Record deleted successfully";
} else {
  echo "Error deleting record: " . mysqli_error($conn);
}

mysqli_close($conn);
?>
Example (PDO)

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDBPDO";

try {
  $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$dbname",
$username, $password);
  // set the PDO error mode to exception
  $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

  // sql to delete a record


  $sql = "DELETE FROM MyGuests WHERE id=3";

  // use exec() because no results are returned


  $conn->exec($sql);
  echo "Record deleted successfully";
} catch(PDOException $e) {
  echo $sql . "<br>" . $e->getMessage();
}

$conn = null;
?>

After the record is deleted, the table will look like this:

id firstname lastname email reg_date

1 John Doe [email protected] 2014-10-22 14:26:15

2 Mary Moe [email protected] 2014-10-23 10:22:30

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