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Hi I've wrote a plugin it works but on deactivation it doesn't drop the plugin tables from db
this is the code

$sql = "DROP TABLE IF_EXISTS 'TABLENAME'";
                $wpdb->query($sql);
                //$e = $wpdb->query($sql);
                //die(var_dump($e));

and i call that function this way
register_deactivation_hook(FILE, 'deactivate');

if i uncomment to show message error it tells me on deativation

bool(false)

whiy doesn't it drop the table?? could you help me to fix it??
thank you

Edited by JorgeM because: replace wp_3DGridFX_portfolio with generic term, 'TABLENAME' as requested.
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Check this code. Bit different than yours.

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with this code it worked!!

global $wpdb;   //required global declaration of WP variable

    $table_name = $wpdb->prefix.$table_name;

    $sql = "DROP TABLE ". $table_name;

    $wpdb->query($sql);

thank you!!

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Nice. Mark it as solved.

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