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UPDATE syntax in FOR loop


pets2soul

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Dear experts,

 

I'm working on a user info updating form, and I only want the amended fields to be updated to the database, I figured this part out, however what caught me is the updating part, where my amended values are stored in an array, and I'm trying to put the values into the SET part with the use of FOR loop, but I can't get the query to work properly...it'd be super duper thankful if anyone can help me with it. Below is my code:

 

	$diff_num = count($diff_info);
$diff_value = array_values($diff_info);
$diff_key = array_keys($diff_info);

for($i = 0; $i < $diff_num; $i++)
{
	$db_update = "AND " . $diff_key[$i] . " = '" . $diff_value[$i] . "' ";
	$query = "UPDATE db_table SET field_one = '$value_one' " . $db_update . " WHERE field_some = '$value_some'";
	if (mysql_query($query))
	{
	return true;
	} else {
	return false;
	}
}

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Hi

 

No need to split the array and then do a for loop. You can just use foreach

 

<?php

if (count($diff_info) > 0)
{
$db_update = '';
foreach($diff_info AS $diff_key=>$diff_value)
{
	$db_update .= ", $diff_key = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($diff_value) . "' ";
} 
$query = "UPDATE db_table SET field_one = '$value_one' " . $db_update . " WHERE field_some = '$value_some'";
if (mysql_query($query))
{
	return true;
} 
else 
{
	return false;
}
}
return false; // nothing to update!

?>

 

Something like that should do it

 

All the best

 

Keith

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