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[cjt]

Firstly I'm completely new to this game so bare with me please! I've installed easy php and using phpMyAdmin I have setup a database for a list of employees in an office, I have managed to get some help to return this information to a webpage using some php and sql, but now I want people to be able to go on the site and update their status (either in or out), any help would be great.

Here is my code (which is basically an example I used, not fully understanding!) for displaying the information from the database on the website. The information from the database can be viewed and is formatted in two ways either in a simplified verision on the home page or a detailed way if the user clicks on the link.

// Connect to MySQL
require("../mysql.php");

$QUERY = mysql_query("SELECT ID, Name, Email, Extension, DirectDial, Status FROM contacts ORDER BY Name ASC");

if(isset($_GET['detailed']))
{

echo("<tr style=\"padding:3px;\">\n\n");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo("<b>Name</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo("<b>Email</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n");
echo("<b>Extension</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n");
echo("<b>Direct</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo("<b>Status</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("</tr>");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($QUERY, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo("<tr style=\"padding:3px;\">\n");
echo("<td width=\"150px\" class=\"contact_field\">\n\n");
echo($row['Name'] . "\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td width=\"300px\" class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo("<a href=\"mailto:" . $row['Email'] . "\">" . $row['Email'] . "</a>\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td width=\"100px\" align=\"center\" class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo($row['Extension'] . "\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td align=\"center\" class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo($row['DirectDial'] . "\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td align=\"center\" class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo($row['Status'] . "\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("</tr>\n");
}

}

else
{

echo("<tr style=\"padding:3px;\">\n\n");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\">\n");
echo("<b>Name</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n");
echo("<b>Extension</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n");
echo("<b>Status</b>");
echo("</td>");
echo("</tr>");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($QUERY, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo("<tr style=\"padding:3px;\">\n");
echo("<td width=\"180px\" class=\"contact_field\">\n\n");
echo("<a href=\"mailto:" . $row['Email'] . "\">" . $row['Name'] . "</a>\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n\n");
echo($row['Extension'] . "\n\n");
echo("</td>\n");
echo("<td class=\"contact_field\" align=\"center\">\n\n");
echo($row['Status'] . "\n\n");

echo("<a href=\"http://www.intertraffic.com" . $row['Status'] . "\">" . $row['Name'] . "</a>\n\n");


echo("</td>\n");
echo("</tr>\n");
}

}

?>

[SieRobin]

require("../mysql.php");

Do you know the directory that mysql.php is in? If so don't use ".." if it's in the same directory as the file you're trying to execute just use..

require "mysql.php";

As for anything else, with me I hate using backslashes just to use quotes, it only complicates the entire script making it harder to read. You can just use ' ' instead of quotes to get around that.

As for your while loop, you don't have anything that is incrementing, therefore it won't loop.