Dropping and creating a MySQL view in PHP not working - php

Question

I'm having a problem with some PHP / MySQL code.
I need a view called gameview for a Star Wars game I'm writing.
If I created the view in MySQL then the code runs perfectly. However, I need this view to be dropped every time the game starts. So if I start without the view "gameview" present in the DB, the page cannot be displayed due to the view not existing. However, the moment I manually add the view into MySQL, it works. I can't see why.
Class code
<?php
class gameView
{
protected $Conn;
public function __construct($Conn)
{
$this->Conn = $Conn;
}
public function dropGameView()
{
$drop = "DROP VIEW if EXISTS gameview;";
$stmt = $this->Conn->prepare($drop);
$stmt->execute(array());
}
public function createGameView()
{
$view = "CREATE VIEW gameview AS SELECT id, name, image, quote FROM person;";
$stmt = $this->Conn->prepare($view);
$stmt->execute(array());
}
public function useGameView()
{
$query = "SELECT * from gameview";
$stmt = $this->Conn->prepare($query);
$stmt->execute(array());
$gameView = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $gameView;
}
}
?>
PHP code
<?php
$gameView = new gameView($Conn);
$finalCharacter = $gameView->useGameView();
$smarty->assign('game_view', $finalCharacter);
?>

Answer 1

Well.... stone the crows. I thought this would be too simple to work, but it did!
<?php
$gameView = new gameView($Conn);
$dropGameView = $gameView->dropGameView();
$smarty->assign('drop_gameview', $dropGameView);
$createGameView = $gameView->createGameView();
$smarty->assign('create_gameview', $createGameView);
$finalCharacter = $gameView->useGameView();
$smarty->assign('game_view', $finalCharacter);
?>
Now to crack on and use the view.