MySql. After HTML button is clicked - TRUNCATE database table

Question

So I need simple thing, I need to create button in my website, after button is clicked, It should truncate database table, but I can\'t do It successfully by myself. So coul

Answer 1

Here, give this a try.

PHP (delete_table.php)

<?php
// CONNECT TO THE DATABASE
$DB_HOST = "your_host";
$DB_NAME = "your_DB_name";
$DB_USER = "username";
$DB_PASS = "password";

$dbc = mysqli_connect($DB_HOST, $DB_USER, $DB_PASS, $DB_NAME)
or die('Error connecting to MySQL server');

if(isset($_POST['delete'])){
$query = "TRUNCATE TABLE `yourTable` "; // replace yourTable with one to delete
$result = mysqli_query($dbc,$query)
or die('Error deleting table.');
}
else {
echo "Sorry";
}
?>

HTML form

<form method="post" action="delete_table.php">
<input type="submit" id='delete' class='delete' name="delete" value='Truncate'></input>
</form>

Answer 2

I'm by far no jQuery expert but maybe something like this....untested of course

jQuery

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('#delete').click(function() {

        var table = $('#table').val(); //where #table could be an input with the name of the table you want to truncate

        $.ajax({
           type: "POST",
           url: "truncate.php",
           data: 'table='+ table,
           cache: false,
           success: function(response) {
                alert('table dropped');
            },
            error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
               alert('request failed');
            }
        });

    });
});

PHP (truncate.php)

    try {
        // create a new instance of a PDO connection
        $db = new PDO(DB_TYPE.':host='.DB_HOST.';dbname='.DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS);
        $db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    }
    catch(PDOException $e) {
        // if the connection fails, display an error message
        echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
    }

    $table = $_POST['table'];

    $sql = 'TRUNCATE TABLE '.$mytable;

    $stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute();


?>