Update not working ... please help


Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hi,

I am trying to update a row using an edit form by passing id of the row .. but it is not working .. can anybody find what went wrong ........
Code: [Select]echo '<a href="addedit.php?edit&id='.$row['id'].'" title="Edit This Member"';
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echo '><img src="images/edit.png"></a>


if(isset($_GET['edit']))
{
$sql="select * from news where id=$_REQUEST[id]";
$row=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($sql));
$action="editnews";
$news=$row[2];
$subject=$row[1];
$button='Update news';
include 'newsForm.php';
exit();
}
if (isset($_POST['action']) and $_POST['action'] =='Update news')

{
$id=$_REQUEST['id'];
$sql='update NEWS SET news="'.$_POST['news'].'",subject ="'.$_POST['subject'].'",added=curdate() where news.id= "$id"';
if(mysql_query($sql))
echo "Updated";

} newsForm.php

Code: [Select]<form action=?<?php echo $action; ?> method="post">


<p><label>News Subject :</label><input name="subject" type="text" size="60" value="<?php echo $subject; ?>"></p>
<p><label>News :</label><textarea rows="20" cols="50" name="news" ><?php echo $news; ?></textarea></p>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $id; ?>"/>
<p><input type="submit" name="action" value="<?php echo $button; ?>"></p>

</form>Pleas somebody let me know what went wrong ..Thanks in advance
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