Actually, it looks to me like you're missing a semicolon terminating your SQL statement. Try this:
$query="update $table set field1='$var1' where id='$id';"; 1LT John W. Holmes wrote: >It's correct for PHP, but there's no telling what MySQL is actually >recieving. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Phil Schwarzmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 2:44 PM >Subject: [PHP] UPDATE mysql > >>I can't get UPDATE to work properly when querying MySQL. >> >>$query = "UPDATE $table SET field1='$var1' WHERE id='$id'"; >> >>I want to update one field of one row in a table. Is this syntax >>correct? >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
