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How To Insert/update Data Using $wpdb

In this tutorial, I will let you know insert, update and delete record in wordpress. WordPress is a very popular open source in PHP. WordPress has a lot of inbuilt functionalities, which is basic for any website and blog.

Here. We will discuss how to insert, delete and update record using wordpress connection object. WordPress defines a class called wpdb, which contains a set of functions used to interact with a database. Its primary purpose is to provide an interface with the WordPress database, but can be used to communicate with any other appropriate database.

There are two methods to access $wpdb object:

1- $wpdb: Declared $wpdb as global and used it to execute an SQL query statement that returns a PHP object.

global $wpdb;
$results = $wpdb->function

2- $GLOBALS : Access $GLOBALS superglobal. Does not require global keywords (but may not be best practice).

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$results = $GLOBALS['wpdb']->function

How to insert record using $wpdb:

We can use the insert method to insert data into the database.

$wpdb->insert('table_name', array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'parvez'));

How to update record using $wpdb:

We can use the update method to insert data into a database.

$wpdb->update('table_name', array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'parvez', array('id' => '2')));

How To Delete Record using $wpdb

The $wpdb is having delete() method to delete the record from wordpress.

wpdb::delete('table', array( 'ID' => 1 ), array( '%d' ) )

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  • nice post but it would be great if you can explaing $wpdb->insert and $wpdb->update functions parameters.

    • Sure,
      $wpdb->insert function takes two parameters(table name and column values) and $wpdb->update function takes three parameters (table name, value and id-which row to update).

  • this is a mistake, the parentheses mislocated and form 2 parameters for update:
    $wpdb->update('table_name', array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'parvez', array('Id' => '2')));
    should be
    $wpdb->update('table_name', array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'parvez'), array('Id' => '2'));

  • It has been a while but it would be a bit clearer if we saw what was in the table before and then what was in it after the update.

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