I have been trying to create a simple form to update details on a database, the PHP code is below:
// UPDATE THE DATABASE RECORDS //
$update = $_GET['update'];
if($update == "true"){
$setDetails="UPDATE users SET email='{$_POST['email']}', api_key='{$_POST['api_key']}', api_secret='{$_POST['api_secret']}' WHERE username='{$_POST['username']}'";
if(mysql_query($setDetails)){
$updatemsg = '<div class="alert alert-success"><a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a><strong>Success!</strong> Your details have been updated in our database.</div>';
}else{
$updatemsg = '<div class="alert alert-error"><a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a><strong>Failure!</strong> Your details could not be updated in our database. Please try again later or contact us if this keeps happening.</div>';
}
}else if($update == "false"){
$updatemsg = '<div class="alert alert-success"><a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a><strong>Success!</strong> Your changed were discarded.</div>';
}
// UPDATE THE DATABASE RECORDS //
// GET THE DATABASE RECORDS //
$getDetails="SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username'";
$details=mysql_query($getDetails);
$num=mysql_numrows($details);
if($num != 0){
$new_user = false;
$username=mysql_result($details,0,"username");
$email=mysql_result($details,0,"email");
$subscription_type=mysql_result($details,0,"subscription_type");
$subscription_date=mysql_result($details,0,"subscription_date");
$api_key=mysql_result($details,0,"api_key");
$api_secret=mysql_result($details,0,"api_secret");
setcookie("api_key", $api_key, time()+50000);
setcookie("api_secret", $api_secret, time()+50000);
}else{
$new_user = true;
}
// GET THE DATABASE RECORDS //
The variables defined when the database records are fetched are then used to populate a HTML form:
<form action="?update=true" method="POST">
<h2>Your Details</h2>
<input id="username" name="username" type="text" placeholder="" disabled="true" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$username?>">
<input id="email" name="email" type="text" placeholder="" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$email?>">
<input id="subscription_type" name="subscription_type" type="text" placeholder="" disabled="true" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$subscription_type?>">
<input id="subscription_date" name="subscription_date" type="text" placeholder="" disabled="true" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$subscription_date?>">
<input id="api_key" name="api_key" type="text" placeholder="" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$api_key?>">
<input id="api_secret" name="api_secret" type="text" placeholder="" class="input-xlarge" value="<?=$api_secret?>">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" id="saveChanges"><i class="icon-ok icon-white"></i> Save Changes</button> <a href="?update=false" class="btn btn-danger" id="discardChanges"><i class="icon-remove icon-white"></i> Discard Changes</a>
</form>
When the page is loaded first time, the form is populated with no problems, but when it is edited and submitted $updatemsg
is the 2nd one (Success) but there are no changes to the data in the database. Any ideas?