I understand that the column name does not normally need quotes, but without quotes on the column name I get a mysql error message about no column named 'id'. Unfortunately, I cannot even get the UPDATE statement working outside of PHP through an direct SQL statement. Everything looks like it should work, but the affected columns is always zero, and obviously the atime column is not getting the timestamp. This is quite frustrating. Thanks again for the help. Hopefully someone will come up with something to help me get this working. -----Original Message----- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:45 PM To: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI); php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: Update Query Help... > $tmp = $_POST['sbcuid']."-".$_POST['system'][$a]; > $update = "UPDATE accounts SET atime='NOW()' WHERE > \"id-sys\"='".$tmp."'"; > echo $update; > $result1 = mysql_query($update, $Prod) or die(mysql_error()); > echo mysql_affected_rows(); Try: $update = "UPDATE accounts SET atime=NOW() WHERE id-sys='$tmp'"; NOW() is a function, don't enclose it within quotes and make it a string. You don't put quotes around column names, either, only string values. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
