On Thursday 18 September 2003 01:03, David wrote:
> I need a secure way of updating mysql on the website, phpadmin is not
> secure enough
Why is phpadmin not secure enough? Or to put it another way, what are you
doing differently that makes it more secure than php admin?
> So I have created these pages in order:
> A page to choose the databases
> Next a page to choose the table
> Next a list of the records in the table
> Next to edit the page using textboxes and textareas
> I pass the database name, table name, and the records to change to the
> page with the problem.
> The passed values have the same field name as the record in the database
> e.g. id
> The problem I can see is that I cannot access the passed variables, that
> is why the update is failing ,
Most likely register_globals (google or search archive or RTFM).
> although I do not get any errors.
Have you set the highest level of error reporting? And set it to display
errors (or log to file)?
> I am trying to access the passed variables with this line $fieldname2 =
> "$".$fieldname;
Not sure what you're trying to do here but ...
> <?php
>
> $MySQLLink = mysql_pconnect ("davecp4", "root", "")
> or die("Could not attach to database. Please try later or contact
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
> mysql_select_db($database_name, $MySQLLink) or die("ERROR--CAN'T CONNECT
> TO DB");
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$table_name) or die("Error: " .
> mysql_error());
>
> for($i = 1; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++)
> {
> $fieldname = mysql_field_name($result, $i);
> $fieldname2 = "$".$fieldname;
> mysql_query("UPDATE $table_name SET $fieldname=$fieldname2 WHERE id
> =$id");
> echo $fieldname."<br>".$fieldname2."<br>";
... does the above echo display what you expected it to?
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