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    copied!<p>I am using this code to enter update user permissions on a web app:</p> <pre><code>$updaters = array(); for ($i = 1; $i &lt;= 24; $i++){ if (isset($_POST['permsA['.$i.']'])) $updaters[] = '`'.$i.'` = \''.mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['permsA['.$i.']']).'\''; } $insert = mysqli_query($db,'UPDATE `tbl_perms` SET '.implode(',', $updaters). 'WHERE `userid` = '.$id)or die(mysqli_error($db)); </code></pre> <p>The error I get is from the SQL:</p> <pre>You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE `userid` = 1' at line 1</pre> <p>I can't seem to be able to rewrite the code to remove the error :(</p> <p>this is the code to generate permsA</p> <pre><code>&lt;? while($i = mysqli_fetch_array($get_perms)){ $pname = $i[pname]; $id = $i[id]; ?&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" tabindex="1" name="permsA[&lt;? echo $id;?&gt;]" value="1" &lt;? if($permissionid[$id] == '1') {echo ' checked="checked" ';}?&gt; /&gt;&lt;?echo htmlspecialchars($pname);?&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;? } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the exact query that produces the error:</p> <pre><code>$insert = mysqli_query($db,'UPDATE `tbl_perms` '.$updaters.' WHERE `userid` = '.$id) or die(mysqli_error($db)); </code></pre> <p>Here is what this sql generates:</p> <pre><code>UPDATE `tbl_perms` SET WHERE `userid` = 1 </code></pre> <p>And here's a variable dump from the variables after POST <code>var_dump($_POST['permsA'])</code>:</p> <p><code>array(22) { [1]=&gt; string(1) "1" [2]=&gt; string(1) "1" [3]=&gt; string(1) "1" [4]=&gt; string(1) "1" [5]=&gt; string(1) "1" [6]=&gt; string(1) "1" [8]=&gt; string(1) "1" [9]=&gt; string(1) "1" [10]=&gt; string(1) "1" [11]=&gt; string(1) "1" [12]=&gt; string(1) "1" [13]=&gt; string(1) "1" [14]=&gt; string(1) "1" [15]=&gt; string(1) "1" [16]=&gt; string(1) "1" [17]=&gt; string(1) "1" [18]=&gt; string(1) "1" [19]=&gt; string(1) "1" [20]=&gt; string(1) "1" [21]=&gt; string(1) "1" [22]=&gt; string(1) "1" [23]=&gt; string(1) "1" }</code></p>
 

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