PHP MySQL CREATE TABLE - php

Question

I'm trying to create a table using PHP, PDO and MySQL.
For the needs of my application, the name of the table has to be a variable.
Here is my code :
$request = $pdo->prepare("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS :table (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`parent_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`position` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`left` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`right` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`level` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`title` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci,
`type` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`content` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 ;");
$request->execute(array(
'table'=>$uuid));
Can't I use ":table" in the MySQL statement ??
Currently I wrote :
[...]
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `$uuid`
[...]
This works but it sounds weird to me ^^' Is it the only solution to my problem ?

Answer 1

You can't pass the table name as parameter. If you want to create table with variable name you must use dynamic query.

Answer 2

$pdo->query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS userfiles (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`user_id` int unsigned NOT NULL,
`parent_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`position` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`left` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`right` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`level` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`title` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci,
`type` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`content` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8");
This is THE ONLY proper way of handling such situations.
Such matters are very basic things.
and your current setup is just like a car with square wheels.
Despite of your shortage of time you have to make it single table.
Otherwise you will waste A LOT more time and eventually will turn to the proper design anyway but after innumerable pains