Question

As the title says.

The form or my query is playing a trick on me 🙁

It enter a 1 inside my database instead of what Im writing in the form.

This is my form

<form action="deleteupdate.php" method="post">
<div id="txtHint"></div>
<input type ="submit" name="submittype" value ="Delete">
<input type ="submit" name="submittype" value ="Update">
category: <input type="text" name="category" />
</form>

And the query in deleteupdate.php

else if($_POST['submittype']=="Update"){
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `category`(`category`) 
    VALUES (category='$category')") ; 
    }

Shouldn’t this work ?

Answer 1

$category doesn’t exist in your script.
Use this code:

else if($_POST['submittype']=="Update"){
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `category`(`category`) 
        VALUES ('". mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['category']) ."')") ; 
}