Ok, this may well turn out to be a total newbie question. But it's got me
stumped.
I'm trying to create a small, simple news system for a personal website.
I've gotten sections to insert the news into the database. but I can't seem
to get it to update itself.
So far I have
<?php
include("accesscontrol.php");
(This is a login script to authenticate users, so they cannot access pages
by merely typing the address into the address bar.
It references the database connection script, so that I shouldn't need to
call that again. Is that right?)
dbconnect(My_db_name);
mysql_query ("UPDATE news SET subject='$newsubject', content='$newcontent'
WHERE id='$id'");
?>
The $newsubject and $newcontent variables are taken from the results of a
form on an earlier page. when the script is run through in full, I get no
errors, but the database is not updated.
The table has the following format
id, date, subject, content, user
I can get the correct news entry displayed in the forms on previous screen,
where the altering takes place. (code for the form is below)
<form name="news" method="get" action=alternews.php>
<input type="hidden" name="user" value="<?=$username?>">
<p>Subject:
<input type="text" name="newsubject" maxlength="120"
value="<?=$subject?>">
</p>
<p>Content:<br>
<textarea name="newcontent" rows="6"
cols="60"><?=$content?></textarea>
</p>
<p align="right">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</p>
</form>
The variables are passed through to the page that actually performs the
update, but the update never takes place. I don't get an error from MySQL,
or a parsing error from PHP, all the pages display as if the update had
taken place.
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
This all seemed like a good way of learning PHP and MySQL, it's just leading
to further hair loss!
Oh, and I'm sorry if this really should go to another list, but this was the
first one that leapt to mind.
Cheers,
Chris Janes
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