Post Method To Update Record Not Working

[kobena]

php version 5.3.1

mysql 5.1.41

xampp 1.7.3

 

 

Hi all,

 

I am trying to update a record using the edit_user principle but to no success. My check indicates that my hidden parameter(dailydelivery_id) is not passed. can you please check if there is something wrong with the following code summary?

 

<form method="post" action="edit_dailydelivery.php">

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<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="UPDATE" /></p>

<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE"/>

<input type="hidden" name="dailydelivery_id" value="' . $id . '" />

 

I then try to get hidden parameter using:

// Check for a valid dailydelivery ID, through GET or POST:

if ( (isset($_GET['dailydelivery_id'])) && (is_numeric($_GET['dailydelivery_id'])) ) { // From view_dailydeliveries.php

$id = $_GET['dailydelivery_id'];

} elseif ( (isset($_POST['dailydelivery_id'])) && (is_numeric($_POST['dailydelivery_id'])) ) { // Form submission.

$id = $_POST['dailydelivery_id'];

} else { // No valid ID, kill the script.

echo '<p class="error">This page has been accessed in error.</p>';

include ('includes/footer.html');

exit();

}

and i get the error "This page has been accessed in error."

It worth mentioning that the get works perfectly.

[Larry]

The code you posted doesn't show PHP echo'ing or printing the value of $id. What does the HTML source code of the page look like (specifically for that input)?

[Stuart]

Like Larry said you're not actually echoing out the value of $id. Everywhere else on your form when you've broke back into PHP tags to print it e.g.

 

value="<?php echo $main_row['variance'] ?>"

 

But when you've tried to print the value of $id you've simply done:

 

<input type="hidden" name="dailydelivery_id" value="' . $id . '"/>

 

That line is outside any PHP tags and therefore being treated as HTML only. Change to:

 

<input type="hidden" name="dailydelivery_id" value="<?php echo $id; ?>"/>

[kobena]

Thanks stuart and larry. i must admit that i was a bit careless. It solved the problem for me.