[SOLVED] using post

[pietbez]

please help

 

using this link should increase the vote count of catagory 3 by one. what am i doin wrong?

 

http://www.website.co.uk/vote/vote.php?id=3

 

<?
include('../qazwsxedc/config.php');

mysql_connect($server,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die ("Unable to connect to the database");

$id=$_POST['id'];
$do=mysql_query ("UPDATE vote SET votes=votes+1 WHERE id ='$id' ");
?>

[revraz]

You need to use GET, not POST.

 

$id=$_GET['id'];

 

[pietbez]

thanks

[CroNiX]

Anything that you grab from the url is a $_GET.  The only time post is used is when it is in a form and the forms 'method' is set to use post instead of get.