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Old 06-30-04, 11:30 AM
mikaelf mikaelf is offline
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May be I can give little help here...

Quote:
Originally Posted by kasper
still missing something (i'm an idiot )
when usuing what u suggested, the link is right with the update.php?id=employee id here. but when clicked it looks to me like its still trying to use the ID instead.... primary key is ID with autoinc and now EmployeeID.

employee.php:
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<?
include("dbinfo.inc.php");
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$query="SELECT Employee,EmployeeID,CrewID FROM EmpInfo";
$result=mysql_query($query);

$num=mysql_numrows($result);

mysql_close();

echo "<b><center>Employee Database</center></b><br><br>";

?><body background="arb.gif">
<table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Employee</font></th>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">EmployeeID</font></th>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">CrewID</font></th>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Update</font></th>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Delete</font></th>
</tr>

<?
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
$Employee=mysql_result($result,$i,"Employee");
$EmployeeID=mysql_result($result,$i,"EmployeeID");
$CrewID=mysql_result($result,$i,"CrewID");
?>

<tr>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo "$Employee"; ?></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo "$EmployeeID"; ?></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo "$CrewID"; ?></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="update.php?ID=<?php echo $EmployeeID; ?>">Update</a></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="delete.php?ID=<?php echo $EmployeeID; ?>">Delete</a></font></td>
</tr>
<?
++$i;
}
echo "</table>";


?>


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update.php
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<?
include("dbinfo.inc.php");
$ID=$_GET['ID'];
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$query="SELECT Employee,EmployeeID,CrewID FROM EmpInfo WHERE ID='$ID'";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
mysql_close();

$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
$Employee=mysql_result($result,$i,"Employee");
$EmployeeID=mysql_result($result,$i,"EmployeeID");
$CrewID=mysql_result($result,$i,"CrewID");


?>

<form action="updated.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="ud_ID" value="<? echo "$ID"; ?>">
Employee: <input type="text" name="ud_Employee" value="<? echo "$Employee"?>"><br>
Employee ID: <input type="text" name="ud_EmployeeID" value="<? echo "$EmployeeID"?>"><br>
Crew ID: <input type="text" name="ud_CrewID" value="<? echo "$CrewID"?>"><br>
<input type="Submit" value="Update">
</form>

<?
++$i;
}
?>
Pay attention to the bolded text:
1.I believe that mysql_numrows is not a valid PHP-built-in function. it should be mysql_num_rows
2.the loop will never start because the condition is always false ($num = 0 while $i increases with step 1).

Solution:
Change mysql_numrows into mysql_num_rows
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