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Deleting Rows From Database..Should Be Simple..

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Mar 02.2011

Having a little issue here.

I want to delete some make-believe accounts from my MySQL DB and I’m not quite understanding why this simple script/query doesn’t work.

[code=php]
function deleteUsers(){

global $wpdb;

$userdelete = $wpdb->query( “DELETE * FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE user_login != ‘admin’ “);

if(! $userdelete )
{
die(‘Could not delete data: ‘ . mysql_error());
echo ‘deletion didnt work for users’;
}

}
[/code]

It is a WordPress site that’s where the $wpdb->users is coming from…$wpdb is an object and “users” is the table… so that part is right…but can anyone see any other errors?

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@NogDogMar 02.2011 — There is no column list for a DELETE query, so the "*" does not belong in your query.
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@tirnaMar 02.2011 — ....
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@ChuckBauthorMar 02.2011 — There is no column list for a DELETE query, so the "*" does not belong in your query.[/QUOTE]

I tried it without and it still didn't work..maybe it's something else if you don't see anything wrong with the code...thanks..
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@NogDogMar 02.2011 — Are you seeing the error message at all? If not, maybe stick something in that function that will indicate it was called -- in other words, are you sure you're calling it? ?
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@ChuckBauthorMar 10.2011 — Are you seeing the error message at all? If not, maybe stick something in that function that will indicate it was called -- in other words, are you sure you're calling it? ?[/QUOTE]

Sorry for the very late reply NogDog...I'll eventually solve this...for now I'm moving on to the next issue (...I'm customizing a social networking plugin in Wordpress...what a headache :rolleyes: )

Thanks..
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