Hi, I've posted this on the genral mailing list, yet I got no response, maybe too crowded there??? I am trying to auto generate some sql strings. The resulting string should look like this: update $table_name set var1='$var1', var2='$var2' ............. where id=$id I used a foreach loop to get the keys from a table and in each foreach loop I tried the following. foreach($myrow as $key=>$val) { $var_list .= " $key = '\$$key', "; } The first php page is the "table generator"; VIEW_ALL.PHP <?php $username_1 = "user"; $password_1 = "password"; $db_name = "test"; $table_name = "users_db"; $link = mysql_connect("localhost",$username_1,$password_1); mysql_select_db($db_name,$link); $sql = "select * from $table_name"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $result_2 = mysql_query($sql); echo "<table border=\"1\">"; $myrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); echo"<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">"; foreach($myrow as $key=>$val) { echo "<td><b>$key</b></td>"; } echo"</tr>"; $count = 2; while($myrow_2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_2)) { $id = $myrow_2["id"]; if ($count == 2) { $bgcol = "#FFFFFF"; $count = $count - 1; } else { $bgcol = "#EFEFEF"; $count = $count + 1; } echo"<tr bgcolor=\"$bgcol\">"; foreach($myrow_2 as $key=>$val) { echo"<td>$val</td>"; } echo"<td><a href=\"edit.php?id_1=$id&table_name=$table_name&db_name=$db_name&username_1=$username_1&password_1=$password_1\">Edit</a></td>"; echo"</tr>"; } echo"</table>"; ?> Goes through to EDIT.PHP <?php $link = mysql_connect("localhost",$username_1,$password_1); mysql_select_db($db_name,$link); $sql = "select * from $table_name where id=$id_1"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $myrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $count_fields = 0; echo"<form name=\"form_1\" method=\"post\" action=\"update.php?username_1=$username_1&password_1=$password_1&db_name=$db_name&table_name=$table_name\">"; echo"<table border\"1\">"; foreach($myrow as $key=>$val) { echo"<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><td>$key</td><td><textarea name=\"$key\">$val</textarea></td></tr>"; $var_list_1 .= "$key = '\$$key',"; $count_fields = $count_fields + 1; } echo"</table>"; $count = strlen($var_list); $new_count = $count - 1; $var_list_1[$new_count] = ""; echo"<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"var_list\" value=\"$var_list_1\">"; echo"<input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\" name=\"submit\">"; echo"</form>"; ?> And this goes to UPDATE.PHP <?php $link = mysql_connect("localhost",$username_1,$password_1); mysql_select_db($db_name,$link); $sql_1 = "update $table_name set $var_list where id=$id"; $result = mysql_query($sql_1); echo "Your data has been updated!<br>"; echo "$sql_1 <br>"; echo "result: $result<br>"; ?> This is where the problems comes in, the SQL is not brought over correctly, rather is written "as-is" with the single quotes \-ed out, can someone plz help me? -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]