Question

CREATE TRIGGER `lastedited` AFTER UPDATE ON `eng-jap`
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
UPDATE `mrhowtos_main`.`eng` 
SET `lastmodified` = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE `eng`.`english` = old.eng;
UPDATE `mrhowtos_main`.`jap` 
SET `lastmodified` = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE `jap`.`japanese` = old.jap;
END;

The error returned by MySQL is:
MySQL said: Documentation

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds
to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 5 

Answer 1

#START TRIGGER
    delimiter $$
    CREATE TRIGGER `lastedited` AFTER UPDATE ON `eng-jap`
    FOR EACH ROW
    BEGIN
    UPDATE `mrhowtos_main`.`eng` 
    SET `lastmodified` = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE `eng`.`english` = old.eng;
    UPDATE `mrhowtos_main`.`jap` 
    SET `lastmodified` = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE `jap`.`japanese` = old.jap;
    END;
    $$

if it still not working , try to replace your old.eng and old.jap with static values such as “roma”