How to drop all tables in database without dropping the database itself?
The shortest is to re-create database. but if you don't want to...
This is for MySQL/PHP. Not tested but something like that.
$mysqli = new mysqli("host", "my_user", "my_password", "database");
$mysqli->query('SET foreign_key_checks = 0');
if ($result = $mysqli->query("SHOW TABLES"))
{
while($row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_NUM))
{
$mysqli->query('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS '.$row[0]);
}
}
$mysqli->query('SET foreign_key_checks = 1');
$mysqli->close();
There is no simple way to do this. Either you'll need to know what the tables are in advance:
//edit you can get this information using the query SHOW TABLE STATUS
$tables = array('users','otherdata');
foreach($tables as $table){
db.execute("DROP TABLE "+$table);
}
or you can drop the database and re-create it empty (it's really not that much effort!):
db.execute('DROP DATABASE SITEDATA');
db.execute('CREATE DATABASE SITEDATA');