Auto creating table if not existing is causing error - php

Question

I'm trying to create following table . query works in phpmyadmin but doesn't work in php script. pls point out mistake in my code. Thank You
$sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `portal` (
 `id` int(255) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `message_sid` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
 `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
 `number` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
 `message` text NOT NULL,
 `created_at` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
 `status` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1";
if (mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
echo "Table portal created successfully";
} else {
echo "Error creating table: " . mysqli_error($conn);
}
I'm getting this error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the
right syntax to use near '`id` int(255) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`message_sid` varchar(255) NOT NULL' at line 2

Answer 1

I have done this by checking if table exists in php, on false create a new table
creating table would be best to export an already existing one with phpmyadmin and then just use it as query syntax

Answer 2

Take the single quotes off of your table and row names
also if you make the id a primary key auto-increment, do not make it not null, this will cause a error.
I am unsure why the down votes....
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS portal (
id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
message_id VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
number VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
message text NOT NULL,
created_at datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
status VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL )ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
This will work