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cant update my table in the DB


silverglade

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hi, i have the following script which is supposed to update the table in the database, and output the results of the newly inserted data to the same page. it doesnt work. please if anyone can tell me why, id greatly appreciate it. here is the code

 

 <?php 

include("connect1.php");


////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////

/// query db and loop through rows example

$field2 = $_POST['username'];
$field3	= $_POST['password'];
$field4	= $_POST['Name'];

if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){ //if submit has been set, or clicked.
if($field2 && $field3 && $field4){

mysql_query("INSERT INTO table2 (username,password,name)VALUES('$field2','$field3','$field4')");

}else{


echo "error";

}
}//isset
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////output data into a table///////////////////////////////



$query 	= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table2");

$table = "<table width=\"40%\" border=\"1\">
			  <tr>
					<td>ID</td>
					<td>username</td>
					<td>password</td>
					<td>Name</td>

			  </tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)){

$table .= "	<tr>
				<td>".$row['record_id']."</td>
				<td>".$row['username']."</td>
				<td>".$row['password']."</td>
				<td>".$row['Name']."</td>

			</tr>";

}

$table .= "</table>";

echo $table;
?>


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Derek's secret account updater</title>
</head>

<body>




<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="secret_updater.php">
  <table width="31%" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="31%">Derek's secret Account updater</td>
    
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="32%">username:</td>
      <td width="68%"><input name="username" type="text" id="username" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>password:</td>
      <td><input name="password" type="text" id="password" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Name:</td>
      <td><input name="Name" type="text" id="Name" /></td>
    </tr>
     <tr>
       
      <td><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

</body>
</html>

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