Please I need help with this PHP Update code.

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Hello everyone!

Please I need help updating my database from a html form.

I'm quite new to PHP. I can't figure out where the error is.

Please can anyone help?

Thank you very much!

<body>
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");
mysql_select_db("wrapper");

if(isset($_POST['update'])){
$UpdateQuery = "UPDATE articles_selection SET article = '$_POST[article]' WHERE id ='$_POST[hidden]'";
mysql_query($UpdateQuery, $sql);




};

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles_selection");

echo "<table border = '1'>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>ARTICLE</th>
</tr>";

while($record = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
echo "<form action="index1.php" method ="post">";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type = "text" name = "id" value ="  . $record['id'] . " </td>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type = "text" name = "article" value ="  . $record['article'] . " </td>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type = "hidden" name = "hidden" value ="  . $record['id'] . " </td>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type = "submit" name = "Update" value = "update">" . " </td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</form>";
}

echo "</table>";

?>
</body>

Thank you very much!

Posted 8-Mar-13 2:40am

namo77

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ZurdoDev 8-Mar-13 8:41am

Can you tell us what is wrong? Do you get an error?

namo77 8-Mar-13 8:48am

Thank you. Yes I get an error (Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'index1' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\ptest\index1.php on line 30)

That is, on this line: echo "<form action="index1.php" method ="post">";

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2013-03-08T03:22:00

Solution 1

You need to escape your quote characters inside the string, like:

PHP

echo "<form action="\"index1.php\"" method="\"post\"">";
</form>

See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.double[^] for more details.

Posted 8-Mar-13 3:22am

Richard MacCutchan

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Prasad Khandekar 8-Mar-13 9:32am

Yes you definitely need to escape or else use single quote ' for outer double quotes. One more suggestion why are you outputting multiple forms per row. You should try and move form outside the loop.

Richard MacCutchan 8-Mar-13 11:54am

There is no point telling me this, please address it to OP.

Prasad Khandekar 9-Mar-13 12:30pm

Sorry Richard,

My intent was not to address it to you, I was just adding more things to your comment.