How To Delete a LEFT OUTER JOIN

Question

I am at the moment trying to delete a LEFT OUTER JOIN I created for a CMS website on PHP my LEFT OUTER JOIN looks like this:

$sqlQuery = "SELECT filename FROM phpland LEFT OUTER JOIN 
images ON phpland.image_id = images.id WHERE phpland.id = '$pageid' ";

In this case phpland and images are the name of my tables and the $pageid is the id I'm passing to it, yet it seems to work no problem but when I attempt to delete it I'm trying:

DELETE filename from phpland AS filename LEFT OUTER JOIN images 
ON phpland.image_id = images.id WHERE phpland.id = '$pid' "

Same situation Im passing the ID and I'm even echoing the ID on PHP to make sure is the ID I wish to delete but it tells me the ID is ambiguous, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong the primary Key on the table images.id is a foreign key on phpland as image_id .

I do hope this was not confusing for anyone, any type of help is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Why do you reference to table images when your id to delete is already in phpland?

And your syntax for deletion is worng. Try:

DELETE FROM phpland 
WHERE phpland.id = '$pageid' 

See also http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/delete.html