PHP Delete Data From MySQL

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Delete Data from MySQL in PHP

In MySQL  The Command Used as Follow : 


DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE column_name=any_value;

And the PHP Query Would Be : 

$query = mysql_query("delete from table_name where column_name=any_value");

Here i am using following MySql Database and Table to illustrate How To execute Sql Query to Delete the Data from MySql Database

Database : dbtuts
Table : users 


CREATE DATABASE `dbtuts` ;
CREATE TABLE `dbtuts`.`users` (
`user_id` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
`first_name` VARCHAR( 25 ) NOT NULL ,
`last_name` VARCHAR( 25 ) NOT NULL ,
`user_city` VARCHAR( 45 ) NOT NULL
) ENGINE = InnoDB;

For This Insert Some Data Into MySql above created table
And Then we Need to Fetch Some Records From MySql table.

delete.php 


<?php
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("dbtuts");
$sql_query="SELECT * FROM users";
$result_set=mysql_query($sql_query);
?>
<table align="center">
<tr>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>City</th>
<th>Delete</th>
</tr>
<?php
if(mysql_num_rows($result_set)>0)
{
    while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result_set))
    {
            ?>
            <tr>
            <td><?php echo $row[1]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row[2]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row[3]; ?></td>
            <td align="center"><a href="delete.php?delete_id=<?php echo $row[0]; ?>"><img src="b_drop.png" alt="Delete" /></a></td>
            </tr>
            <?php
    }
}
else
{
        ?>
        <tr>
        <th colspan="4">There's No data found !!!</th>
        </tr>
        <?php
}
?>
</table>

Following is the QueryString Set Condition
If The QueryString set as 

http://localhost/folder_name/delete.php?delete_id=1

it means the condition was set and the Sql Query will execute and Delete the 1 Record From MySql Table. 


<?php
if(isset($_GET['delete_id']))
{
     $sql_query="DELETE FROM users WHERE user_id=".$_GET['delete_id'];
     mysql_query($sql_query);
     header("Location: delete.php");
}
?>

Conclusion:

I have shown you that how to Delete Records From MySql Database Table Using PHP.
That’s it .

Here’s the Complete Script

delete.php 


<?php
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("dbtuts");
$sql_query="SELECT * FROM users";
$result_set=mysql_query($sql_query);
if(isset($_GET['delete_id']))
{
 $sql_query="DELETE FROM users WHERE user_id=".$_GET['delete_id'];
 mysql_query($sql_query);
 header("Location: index.php");
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>PHP Delete Data From MySql - By Cleartuts</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<center>

<div id="header">
 <div id="content">
    <label>PHP Delete Data From MySql - By Cleartuts</label>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="body">
 <div id="content">
    <table align="center">
    <tr>
    <th>First Name</th>
    <th>Last Name</th>
    <th>City</th>
    <th>Delete</th>
    </tr>
    <?php
 if(mysql_num_rows($result_set)>0)
 {
  while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result_set))
  {
   ?>
            <tr>
            <td><?php echo $row[1]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row[2]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row[3]; ?></td>
            <td align="center"><a href="index.php?delete_id=<?php echo $row[0]; ?>"><img src="b_drop.png" alt="Delete" /></a></td>
            </tr>
            <?php
  }
 }
 else
 {
  ?>
        <tr>
        <th colspan="4">There's No data found !!!</th>
        </tr>
        <?php
 }
 ?>
    </table>
    </div>
</div>

<div id="footer">
 <div id="content">
    <hr /><br/>
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    </div>
</div>

</center>
</body>
</html>

Stylesheet : style.css 


@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
*
{
 margin:0;
 padding:0;
}
body
{
 background:#f9f9f9;
 font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
}
#header
{
 width:100%;
 height:50px;
 background:#00a2d1;
 color:#f9f9f9;
 font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
 font-size:35px;
 text-align:center;
}
#body
{
 margin-top:80px;
}
table
{
 width:40%;
 font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
 font-weight:bolder;
 color:#999;
}
table,td,th
{
 border-collapse:collapse;
 border:solid #d0d0d0 1px;
 padding:20px;
}
#footer
{
 margin-top:100px;
 font-weight:bolder;
 color:#00a2d1;
 font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
 font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
 font-size:20px;
}
#footer a
{
 color:#004567;
 text-decoration:none;
}
#footer a:hover
{
 color:brown;
}
#footer hr
{
 width:80%;
}