Sorry, just noticed that I had this line in the post.  (should not post 
before coffee).

> $sql = "INSERT INTO contact  comments, VALUES = $test WHERE contact_id = 
> 33";

It is supposed to be

$sql = UPDATE contact comments = '$test' WHERE contact_id = '33'


""Gary"" <gwp...@ptd.net> wrote in message 
news:49.e6.07323.599d8...@pb1.pair.com...
>I am trying to get an update command to work in PHP.  I am able to update 
>records going directly to phpmyadmin command line. I have even let it 
>produce the php code to insert, but have not been able to get it to work.
>
> I have it stripped down to one command hoping to get it to work then 
> replicate entire forms for clients to use direct.I get no error codes, I 
> only get my message "It did not enter into DB";
>
> Anyone see where I am going wrong?
>
> Gary
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
> test<input name="test" type="text" />
> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
> </form>
>
> <?php
>
>
> $batchconnetion = mysql_connect(host, 'un', 'pw', 'db')//sanatized for 
> board
> or die('Error connecting with MySQL Database');
>
> $test=$_POST['test'];
>
> //$sql="update contact set type = \'$test\' where item_id = \'164\'"; 
> //this is the code created by phpmyadmin
>
> $sql = "INSERT INTO contact  comments, VALUES = $test WHERE contact_id = 
> 33";
>
> mysql_query($sql,$batchconnetion);
>
> $result = mysql_query($sql,$batchconnetion);
>
> if($result == true) {
>       echo "Successfully Inserted Records";
>   } else {
>       echo "It did not enter into DB";
> }
>
> mysql_close($batchconnetion);
>
> ?>
>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
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