SQL-script does not insert values in component installation in Joomla

Question

I'm working on creating a Joomla component for Joomla 2.5, but I'm having trouble with the installation script. In the install.mysql.utf8.sql file I have the following content:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `#__products`;

CREATE TABLE `#__products` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
  `description` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
  `price` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `published` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
  `url` varchar(255),
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=0 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

# Insert default values
INSERT INTO `#__products` (`name`, `description`, `price`, `url`) VALUES
('product1', 'description1', 1000, 'image.png'),
('product2', 'description2', 2000, 'image.png'),
('product3', 'description3', 4000, 'image.png');

When I install the component, Joomla says it was successfull. However, when I check the database the default values have not been added to the product table even though the table got created. If I run the INSERT directly in mysql it works just fine (have to change the name of the table of course).

If i were to include a typo in the SQL-script I get an error, so I don't see how it's a problem with my MySQL syntax. Does anyone have any clues of what might be going on here, and how to solve it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I finally got it to work. The only thing I did was to remove the DROP TABLE IF EXISTS at the top of the SQL-file, and change the CREATE-statement to start with a CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS. That was it.

I'm not sure why this works, but it could be that the insert does not work because the table hasn't been properly deleted/created when the insert is being executed. Hope this will help someone else!