IF there is a formula for the value of quantity eg Quantity = Quantity -1 (UPDATE table SET Quantity = Quantity-1 ) you need to do an update statement for each row
EG UPDATE table SET Quantity = "9" WHERE Field = Book3 HTH Peter ----------------------------------------------- Excellence in internet and open source software ----------------------------------------------- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. 0121-242-1473 ----------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 April 2002 14:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] Updating Many Records > > > I am not sure if this is possible. > > I have a database, and we fetch all the records and then list them. > > What we need is the one field in the database to be able to be updated. > > Now the field will have different values for each record. Is it > possible to update the table with lots of different values? > > So for example we have: > > Field Qantity > Book 1 5 > Book2 6 > Book3 9 > > Now when we are shown all these records the quantity is a form > field and we want to change this but for each record? > > Hope the above is enough to go on. > > Barry > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
