I have what i thought was a simple form to update 3 values in my database,
been trying now for 13 hours and im about to go nuts, can anyone find a problem
why this script is not updating the 3 values ?
// listrecords.php
''****************************************************************
<?php
$hostname="private"; // Host name
$username="dbmikesecure"; // Mysql username
$password="private"; // Mysql password
$database="dbmikesecure"; // Database name
$tbl_name="Data"; // Table name
// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
?>
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="400" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Data List </strong> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"><strong>Word1</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Word2</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Word3</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Update</strong></td>
</tr>
<?php
while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td><? echo $rows['word1']; ?></td>
<td><? echo $rows['word2']; ?></td>
<td><? echo $rows['word3']; ?></td>
// link to update.php and send value of id
<td align="center"><a href="update.php?Id=<? echo $rows['Id']; ?>">update</a></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
mysql_close();
?>
// update.php
''****************************************************************
<?php
$hostname="private"; // Host name
$username="dbmikesecure"; // Mysql username
$password="private"; // Mysql password
$database="dbmikesecure"; // Database name
$tbl_name="Data"; // Table name
// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
// get value of id that sent from address bar
$id=$_GET['id'];
// Retrieve data from database
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE id='$id'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);
?>
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="update_ac.php">
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Update Data</strong> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"><strong>Word1</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Word2</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Word3</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="center"><input name="word1" type="text" id="word1" value="<? echo $rows['word1']; ?>"></td>
<td align="center"><input name="word2" type="text" id="word2" value="<? echo $rows['word2']; ?>" size="15"></td>
<td><input name="word3" type="text" id="word3" value="<? echo $rows['word3']; ?>" size="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input name="Id" type="hidden" id="Id" value="<? echo $rows['Id']; ?>"></td>
<td align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</form>
</tr>
</table>
<?
// close connection
mysql_close();
?>
// update_ac.php
''****************************************************************
<?php
$hostname="private"; // Host name
$username="dbmikesecure"; // Mysql username
$password="private"; // Mysql password
$database="dbmikesecure"; // Database name
$tbl_name="Data"; // Table name
// Connect to the database
mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE("Unable to connect");
mysql_select_db("$database") or die("Unable to select database");
$query="UPDATE Date SET word1='" . $_POST['word1'] . "', word2='" . $_POST['word2'] . "', word3='" . $_POST['word3'] . "' WHERE id='" . $_POST['$Id'] . "'";
$checkresult = mysql_query($query);
if ($checkresult) echo 'update query succeeded';
else echo 'update query failed';
mysql_close();
?>
