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Asked: 2026-06-13T04:49:23+00:00

As a novice MySQL user I tried to insert, but I just read on

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As a novice MySQL user I tried to insert, but I just read on the MySQL documentation that you can only insert on blank rows. My UPDATE statement needs work though, and I’m not sure that I have the syntax correct.

$query3 = "UPDATE `offices` SET `scash`="$total" WHERE `officename`="$office"";

offices is the table name. scash is the row to be updated. $total is a variable pulled from a post. $office is a variable pulled from the same database. I only want to set scash to total where the officename is $office.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE is the error I’m getting.

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  1. Editorial Team
    $query3 = "UPDATE `offices` SET `scash`='$total' WHERE `officename`='$office'";

    Replace the double quotes with normal quotes in the string since double quotes are string delimiters and can’t be used in the string.

    And as Marc B mentioned your code might be vurnerable for SQL injections. See this post how you can avoid that.

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