In article <000001c2433c$e2e3e4c0$e5c405c8@gateway>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
says...
> Hi all.
> 
> I have a small problem here. I have this full-PHP site working with a
> MySQL db and came to a dead road when trying to delete a record from it
> from the Administrator's page. I have PHP to make this decision after
> the Administrator selected the record to delete and answered YES to the
> =BFAre you sure...? The last part will pass a hidden value of $editpic
> which tells the deleting script which artid to delete from the db. This
> is the code that does the deletion:
> 
> else if ($deleteyes)
> {
>       $query =3D "DELETE FROM saav_arts WHERE artid =3D '$editpic' LIMIT
> 1";
>       $result =3D mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
> 
>       if (!$result)
>       {
>               echo "The Picture could NOT be deleted<br>";
>               echo "<form action=3D\"".$PHP_SELF."\" method=3D\"post\">";
>               echo "<input type=3D\"submit\" name=3D\"cancel\"
> value=3D\"Back to Edition\">";
>               echo "</form>";
>       }
>       else if ($result)
>       {
>               echo "The Picture was deleted sucsesfully<br>";
>               echo "<form action=3D\"".$PHP_SELF."\" method=3D\"post\">";
>               echo "<input type=3D\"submit\" name=3D\"cancel\"
> value=3D\"Back to Edition\">";
>               echo "</form>";
>       }
> }
> 
> Cesar Aracena
> CE / MCSE+I

You have made some wrong assumptions in your code here; it is quite 
possible that $result may be true but no entries have been deleted. You 
perhaps should look at the possibility of testing mysql_affected_rows to 
determine whether any rows have been updated/deleted.

WHERE artid = '$editpic' 

implies that you expect artd to be a text field of type char or 
varchar because you have enclosed the value that you are testing in single 
quotes; if artid is in fact an integer type, this query will not affect 
any rows, as the text value will never match an integer field value.

-- 
David Robley
Temporary Kiwi!

Quod subigo farinam

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