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Your misleading choice of variables names no doubt contributed to the problem. There are other things could be improved too Use prepared queries instead of putting variables directly into the sql query strings. (I would also recommend PDO in preference to mysqli) use css classes instead of repetitive inline style definitions you are using deprecated html markup code (eg <tr bgcolor = "#cccccc">) you use a lot of unnecessary concatenation when building strings - a common source of errors.