CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

ActiveRecord – delete

The D of CRUD is used for deleting rows of data in a database table. CodeIgniter uses the $this->db->delete()database function to remove rows from a database; it is used in the following section.

Getting ready

The following is the SQL code required to support this recipe; you'll need to adapt it to your circumstances:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ch6_users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `firstname` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `lastname` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `username` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `password` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `created_date` int(11) NOT NULL, `is_active` varchar(3) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ; INSERT INTO `ch6_users` (`firstname`, `lastname`, `username`, ...