On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Jason Pruim <japruim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > the actual query I'm using is this: > > $chpwsql = "UPDATE current SET customerName='$customerName', > loginName='$loginName', loginPassword='$PW', email='$email', > adminLevel='$adminLevel' WHERE Record='$Record1'"; > > What it is doing now is if I don't set a a field I am replacing the > content of it with a tab, which isn't what I want. Basically what I'm > looking for is if loginPassword hasn't changed... don't clear the > contents of it. if it has changed, then update loginPassword Okay, since you won't only want to rely on isset() here (in case someone accidentally hits a key into the field), try this: // NOTE: This assumes prior sanity checks and cleansing // of variables, and is written like so to avoid breaking // of the query due to mail client-enforced line breaks. $chpwsql = "UPDATE current SET "; $chpwsql .= "customerName='".$customername."',"; $chpwsql .= "loginName='".$loginName."',"; if(preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]{5,16}$/i',$PW)) { // If it's between 5-16 case-insensitive alphanumeric // characters, it's all good. If you want to allow symbols, // simply modify the regexp accordingly. $chpwsql .= "loginPassword='".$PW."',"; } $chpwsql .= "email='".$email."',"; $chpwsql .= "adminLevel='".$adminLevel',"; $chpwsql .= " WHERE Record='".$Record1."'"; $chpwsql .= " LIMIT 1"; -- </Daniel P. Brown> Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer 1+ (570-) 362-0283 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php