Get rid of the double quotes around your variables so:
$sql = "UPDATE $table_name SET name='$name', lname='$lname', mobil='$mobil'
etc etc etc
Cheers!
Rick
"Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be
on God's side." - Abraham Lincoln
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 13:24, Ben C. wrote:
> I am struggling with the code below. I keep getting the error "Couldn't
> execute query". Please help me out, let me know where I am going wrong.
>
> <?
>
> $db_name = "db1";
> $table_name = "user";
>
> $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password") or
> die("Couldn't connect.");
>
> $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select
> database.");
>
> $sql = "UPDATE $table_name
> SET
> name = \"$name\",
> lname = \"$lname\",
> mobil = \"$mobil\",
> email = \"$email\",
> url = \"$url\",
> WHERE id= \"$id\"
> ";
>
> $result = @mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute
> query.");
>
> ?>
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