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    copied!<p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p>I am trying to update information in my db but am having no luck and no error messages. </p> <p>Here is the page code (the pid or post_id is in the URL):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php include('page with functions.php'); if (isset($_GET['pid'], $_POST['title'], $_POST['body'])){ if (edit_post($_GET['pid'], $_POST['title'], $_POST['body'])){ header("Location: blog_edit.php?pid={$_GET['pid']}"); }else{ header("Location: some location.php"); } die(); } ?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Blog Edit&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;?php if (isset($_GET['pid']) ===false || valid_pid($_GET['pid']) === false){ echo 'Invalid post ID'; }else{ $post = get_post($_GET['pid']); ?&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;?php echo $post['title']; ?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;hr /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;?php echo $post['body']; ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;hr /&gt; &lt;form action="" method="post"&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="title"&gt;Title&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="title" id="title" value="&lt;?php echo $post['title']; ?&gt;"/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;textarea name="body" rows="20" cols="60"&gt;&lt;?php echo $post['body']; ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Edit Post" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the function (the pid or post_id is in the URL):</p> <pre><code>// edits a blog entry function edit_post($title, $body){ $title = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($title)); $body = mysql_real_escape_string(nl2br(htmlentities($body))); mysql_query("UPDATE `posts` (`post_title`, `post_body`) SET `post_title` = '{$title}' AND `post_body` = '{body}' WHERE `post_id` = {$pid}"); } </code></pre> <p>Any help would be great thanks! FYI I am new to PHP MYSQL so please be kind.</p>
 

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