<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_drop_db</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_db_query" HREF="function.mysql-db-query.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_errno" HREF="function.mysql-errno.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-db-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-errno.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-drop-db" ></A >mysql_drop_db</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN58493" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_drop_db -- Drop (delete) a MySQL database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN58496" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_drop_db</B > ( string database_name [, resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_drop_db()</B > attempts to drop (remove) an entire database from the server associated with the specified link identifier. </P ><P > For downward compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql_dropdb()</B > can also be used. This is deprecated, however. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The function <B CLASS="function" >mysql_drop_db()</B > is deprecated. It is preferable to use <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A > to issue a SQL DROP DATABASE statement instead. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-create-db.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_create_db()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-db-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-errno.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_db_query</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_errno</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >