How to Delete a Column of a MySQL Table Using PHP

In this article, we show how to delete a column of a MySQL table using PHP.
We delete a column using PHP to write the drop table MySQL query to delete the table.
The general format of the MySQL query to delete a column of a MySQL table is shown below.
So the above is the MySQL code to delete a column named email of a MySQL table.
We'll now show how to tie this in with PHP to delete a column of a table.
So, first, we must connect to the database.
After we do this, we create a variable named $deletecolumn. This $deletecolumn variable is set equal to a mysql_query() function that has the parameter "ALTER TABLE customers DROP email". This deletes the column, email, from the customers table.
So this is how you can delete a column from a MySQL table using PHP.
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