Hi,
I have a form set up for editing a single row of a MySQL DB. The form fields are populated with the current DB data.

e.g. <input type="text" name="myform[firstname]" value="<?php echo $myDB['Firstname']; ?>">

That part works fine. The form loads and all my data is there like it should be.

I submit this form to another php page that does the work of updating the DB with the changed entries. But when these form fields are submitted, they arrive at the next page with a value of 'S' - I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't have an email validator.

So on the work page if I echo $_POST['myform']['firstname'] I get 'S'.

What is this? What does it mean? How can I stop it? Please Tell Me!

The best ideas are not the simple ones, they're the complex ones made easy.

Huh, that doesn't sound right. What exactly is the code snippet you're using to echo the data? And what exactly is the HTML form you've generated? I suspect that you might be somehow overwriting your myform array, maybe with a typo or something.

The first thing you should do on your page is to check the values of everything in $_POST to make sure it looks right. If it does, you know that something's being screwed up in the PHP code that receives the form. If it doesn't look right, you know that there's something wrong with your form HTML.

<?php

if (isset($_POST))
{
    echo "<pre>\$_POST is:";
    print_r($_POST);
    echo "</pre>\n";
}

// rest of your script goes here

?>


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

I decided to start over, and as soon as I began writing out the code I realised what I was doing wrong. On my submitting form page I was writing: name="myform['firstname']" which doesn't seem to work.

When I rewrote it as; name="myform[firstname]" (without the single quotes around firstname), everything fell into place.
Just another stupid error.

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