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Update data from a form into a database:

Now we will create an HTML form that can be used

to update one column in the Friend table, file

update1.php. We have arbitrarily chosen to
update the first name of the person.
The first test: has the user submitted the form?
Second test: is there something in every field?
Third test: is the new first name longer than the
field domain permits?

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 Lets find out what there is in the table Friend:

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 The task is to update the first name Rosalind to

Rosalind Elsie:

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 The third test: has the user inputted too long a

name?:

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New First Name: Longer than 45 character constants

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 One more detail from the previous example: the

first parameter of the mysql_query() is UPDATE

statement.
UPDATE and DELETE statements behave in the
same way in those kinds of situations: if there are
no rows to be updated or deleted, then there
would not come any warnings or errors back:

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 Definitely we need to improve the source code:

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 Let us test the modification. The second name and

the address are valid values:

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 The following example selects the same data as

the example above, but will display the data in an

HTML table:

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