jbdesign Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Hello all, first post here so i hope i'm doing this right and am putting this into the right place. Im in the process of integrating a blog into my website, mostly it's set up however i'm currently working on the code to update the posts (theres only 2 parts a title and a comments[which is in actual fact the post content itself]). The code succsefully completes without any errors but for some reason it does not actually update the mysql database.. the code i'm using is as follows: <?php require_once('header.php'); include "../blog/blogconfig.php"; if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ $update="UPDATE eq_blogarticle SET title='".$_POST['title']."',comments='".$_POST['comment']."' WHERE artid='$aid'"; if(!mysql_query($update)){ echo mysql_error(); }else{ header("location:blog.php?action=listmsgs"); exit; } } ?> <?php // get value of aid that sent from address bar by blog.php?action=listmsgs $aid=$_GET['aid']; // Retrieve data from database $sql="SELECT * FROM eq_blogarticle WHERE artid='$aid'"; $result=mysql_query($sql); $row=mysql_fetch_array($result); ?> <form name="form2" method="post" action="update.php"> <script type="text/javascript">var SITE_URL="<?php echo SITE_URL;?>";</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo SITE_URL;?>/includes/js/nicEdit.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ bkLib.onDomLoaded(function() { nicEditors.allTextAreas() }); //]]> </script> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="temptitle">Equidisc Blog</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="74%" valign="top"> <table> Edit Blog Post <br> <br> Title: <br> <input name="title" type="text" class="input" id="title" value="<? echo $row['title']; ?>"> <br> <br> <span class="style1 style2 style3">Blog Post:</span> <br> <br> <textarea name="comments" cols="55" rows="12" class="input" id="comments"><? echo stripslashes($row['comments']); ?></textarea> <br> <br> <input name="aid" type="hidden" id="aid" value="<? echo $row['artid']; ?>"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> </form> </table> </td> <td width="26%" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="../blog/images/fb.gif" width="16" height="16" /> <strong>Blog Menu</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="blog.php">Home</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="blog.php?action=newblogpost">New Post </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="blog.php?action=listmsgs">Manage Posts </a></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> </body> <?php require_once('footer.php'); ?> Explanation: header/footer.php obvious ../blog/blogconfig.php holds my mysql connection settings and connects to the sql, this is the same config as is used for creating the new posts which i have no issues with so i dont think the issue lays there. If i run the query on phpmyadmin with dummy data it works fine and updates the entry.. Any help would be very much appreciated as i'm at the end of my tether with this!. Thanks in advance. Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litebearer Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 have you echoed $update to ascertain it contains what you expect it to contain? are you receiving any error messages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbdesign Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Thanks so much, didnt think of doing that! after spending hours staring at it trying to figure it out echoing helped me track down the issue in no time! Turns out it wasnt passing the id number through properly from my post, changing the query to: $update="UPDATE eq_blogarticle SET title='".$_POST['title']."',comments='".$_POST['comments']."' WHERE artid='".$_POST['aid']."'"; solved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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