Thanks to everyone for their help as it solved my problem with the missing quote addition. However, I then found another problem and that was the data. It seems the practice by the company is to enclose some data in "" the double quote such as "MY NAME" and therefore I was losing data, so I made the following change to the code and all is now working correctly.
The original section of problem code was ..........value="<?php echo $row['mycustomer']; ?>". So because of the " in some of the data fields, I changed the code to ........
...................................................value='<?php echo $row['mycustomer']; ?>', using the single quote instead of the double quote.
Mahalo to all
dickm