Is register globals on in your PHP.ini? Are you sure there isn't a cookie or session value of $user that's overwriting your POST value?
I really hope this is the case, it's such a perfect argument for why PHP 4.2 is the way it is... :) ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:47 PM > To: 'Php' > Subject: RE: [PHP] inputted value not being correctly ready by php > > I am displaying the results here... this is just a very rough implemtation > of what I want it to do ... my main issue was > > with > > $aSQL1 = "INSERT INTO table2 ( user_name, nameid) VALUES ( '$user', > LAST_INSERT_ID() )"; > > and the actual submitted value of $user that was being inputted into the > DB. > > > > the fetch statement is comming just didn't need it in there for this > example. > > what I found interesting when i changed the name of $user to $uname in the > form and the db and script it worked as expected... > > Cheers > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2002 11:36 AM > To: 'Peter'; 'Php' > Subject: RE: [PHP] inputted value not being correctly ready by php > > > > $sql = "SELECT id, user_name, name FROM table1, table2, table3 WHERE > ('id > > = > > table1.id') AND ('table1.userid = table2.id') AND ('table2.nameid = > > table3.id')"; > > $result=mysql_query( $sql ); > > > > > > echo ("your id is $id"); > > echo ("<BR>"); > > echo ("your name is $name"); > > echo ("<BR>"); > > echo ("your user name is<br> $user"); > > Remove those single quotes from your SELECT statement. Your WHERE > statement is just evaluating to 'string' AND 'string' AND 'string', > which will be true for every row in every table. It's no wonder you're > getting an odd result. Also, are you trying to display the values from > the database here? There is no fetch_* function to get anything out of > the result set. Where is $id coming from?? > > I can't explain result you're getting for $user, but with these errors, > I'm sure there are more, and there's no telling what's going on... > > ---John Holmes... > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
