On Friday 05 April 2002 13:42, Jennifer Downey wrote: > If you had read more carefully you'd see that I don't have THE email sent > to me. The replies were never in the archives.
Email & posts, many people don't know/don't differentiate/don't care about the difference. Obviously you're not one of them :) > I guess since I am a woman everyone feels they need to send private email > instead of replying with a post. How enviable. > What I need to accomplish is that when the submit button is clicked the > quantity is subtracted by 1 and then the item is placed in the users item > list in mysql. You don't say what the problem is. I'm assuming your form works correctly. > This is what I have in buyitem.php but I cant seem to get it to work. > $return["quantity"]=("UPDATE {$config["prefix"]}_items set quantity = > quantity - 1 WHERE id = '$ItemID'"); Your use of variable names is most confusing. $return["quantity"] was holding a quantity when in your form, now it's being assigned a query ?? > $result=mysql_query($db["quantity"]); Is $db["quantity"] meant to be $return["quantity"] ? Or vice-versa? Or is it a typo? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* "Why must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?" -- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions */ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php