At 21:12 02.06.2003, Matt Hedges said:
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>Hello, I am new to PHP and would greatly appreciate any help.
>
>I am building a webpage for my sister's sorority- http://olemissddd.com.  I
>have built a page that allows them to update the officers each year-
>http://hedges.org/ddd/olemiss/updateofficers.php and then view those
>officers- http://hedges.org/ddd/olemiss/officers.php .
>
>However, what I want to be able to do that I can't figure out is for when
>they leave one of the fields blank it doesn't change anything.  As it is
>now, when they change one of the fields and leave the others blank it will
>overwrite the names it had for them with blank spaces.  I want to be able to
>do this so for example if they mistype someone's name, etc.  So somehow I
>need to be able to tell it that when the user leaves the field blank, not to
>change that field in MySQL.
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Try something like

    if (!empty($_REQUEST['fieldname']))
       dbupdate('fieldname');

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.empty.php




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