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I'm trying to learn to update a table in mysql from a textarea. <textarea rows="30" cols="60" name="content" /><?php echo $row['content'] ?></textarea>. This is the mysql command i use. mysql_query("UPDATE pages SET content='$content' WHERE id='$id'");. I'm not sure why it's not doing it. Also I'm using tinymce as the editor and the area is hard to edit. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

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What method is your form using? POST or GET?

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I'm using $_POST. I'm trying to be able to edit content from mysql via a <textarea> tag kinda like the (edit) buttons here on the forum.

This is the code I'm using.

<?php 
session_start();
if(!$_SESSION['username']){
    header('Location: ../login.php');    
} else {
include_once '../functions/index.php';
$sql = "SELECT * FROM pages;";
$result = mysql_query($sql);    
?>
<!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" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
    mode : "textareas"
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.button {
    border: 1px solid #006;
    background: #9cf;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<?php
if($_POST['updatePost'])
{
    $id;
    $content;
    $id = $_POST['id'];
    $content = $_POST['content'];
    mysql_query("UPDATE pages SET content='$content' WHERE id='$id'");
    exit;;

}

if($_POST['edit'])
{    
    $id = $_POST['id'];
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM pages WHERE id='$id'";
    $result = mysql_query($sql);
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        ?>
    <form method="post">
    <fieldset style="width:500px;">
    <legend>Front Page</legend>
    <table>
    <tr>
    <td width="20%"><label>Title:</label></td>
    <td><?php echo  $row['title'] ?></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width="20%" valign="top"><label>Content: </label></td>
    <td><textarea rows="30" cols="60" name="content"  /><?php echo $row['content'] ?></textarea></td>
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="' . $row['id'] . '" />
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td></td><td align="center"><input type="submit" name="updatePost" id="updatePost" value="Update Post" style="width:200px;" class="button"/></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </fieldset>
    </form>
    <?php
    exit;
    }
}
?>
<form method="post">
<p>Edit content by entering number
<input type="text" name="id" id="id" style="width:30px" />
<input type="submit" name="edit" id="edit" value="Edit" class="button"/>
</p>
</form>
<?php

echo '<table';
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    echo '<tr>
            <td width="50">Title:</td>
            <td width="400">' . $row['title'] . '</td>
            <td>' . $row['id'] . '</td>
            </tr>';    
}
echo '</table>';
?>

</body>
</html>
<?php 
}
?>

Edited by Alexander, 16 December 2010 - 02:44 PM.
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