WHERE clause is used with DELETE table_name statement when row or record is to be deleted.
DELETE FROM table_name WHERE column_name=some_value
Example for DELETE statement using MySQLi
<?php $server = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $password = ""; $db = "expertstutorials"; $conn = mysqli_connect($server, $user, $password, $db); if($conn){ echo "Connected successfully."; } else{ echo "Connection failed : ".mysqli_connect_error(); } $table_delete = "DELETE FROM course WHERE id=2"; if (mysqli_query($conn, $table_delete)) { echo "Some row deleted successfully."; } else { echo "Row deleting failed : " . mysqli_error($conn); } mysqli_close($conn); ?>
Example for DELETE statement using PDO
<?php $server = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $password = ""; $db = "expertstutorials"; try{ $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$server;dbname=$db", $user, $password); echo "Connected successfully."; $table_delete = "DELETE FROM course WHERE id=2"; $conn->exec($table_delete); echo "Some row deleted successfully."; } catch(PDOException $e){ echo "Row deleting failed : " . $e->getMessage(); } $conn = null; ?>