Question

I am using one submit button to update data in a database and send an email. However the data is not being saved to the database. The code looks like:

<?php
    if(isset($_POST['order_status']))
    {
    $dbhost = 'localhost';
    $dbuser = 'root';
    $dbpass = '';
    $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
    if(! $conn )
    {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    $orderno =$_POST['order_no'][$i];
    $status =$_POST['order_status'][$i];
    print_r($_POST['order_no']);
    $sql = 'UPDATE Orders SET status="' . $_POST['order_status'] . '" WHERE   Orderno="' .    $_POST['order_no'] . '"';

    mysql_select_db('PurchaseOrders');
    $retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
    if(! $retval )
    {
    die('Could not update data: ' . mysql_error());
    }
    echo "Updated data successfully\n";
    mysql_close($conn);
    }
?>
<?php
    if(isset($_POST['order_selected']))
    {
    $keys = array_keys($_POST['order_selected']);

    foreach($keys as $key)
    {
        $to = $_POST['order_requested_by'][$key];
        $subject = "Order Form Approval";
        $message = "Your purchase order number: " . " " . $_POST['order_no'][$key] ."    ". "is" ." ". $_POST['order_status'][$key] ;
        $headers = "From: [e-mail]";
        $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;
        if($sent)
        {header( 'Location: http://localhost/test/../' ) ; }
        else
        {print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
    }
}
?>

In my form the input fields look like this:

 echo '<td><input type="text" readonly=true name="order_supplier['.$i.']" value="' .    $row['Supplier'] . '"/></td>';
    echo '<td><input type="text" readonly=true name="order_total_price['.$i.']" value="' . $row['totalprice'] . '"/></td>';
    echo '<td><input type="text" readonly=true name="order_requested_by['.$i.']" value="' . $row['requestedby'] . '"/></td>';
    echo '<td>';
    echo '<select name="order_status['.$i.']" id="id" onchange="showUser(this.value)" >';
    echo '<option value = "Pending"   name="order_status['.$i.']" class = "pending"' . ($row['status'] == 'Pending' ? ' selected=selected' : '') . '>Pending</option>';
echo '<option value = "Approved"  name="order_status['.$i.']" class = "approved"' .     ($row['status'] == 'Approved' ? ' selected=selected' : '') . '>Approved</option>';
    echo '<option value = "Disapproved" name="order_status['.$i.']" class     ="disapproved"' . ($row['status'] == 'Disapproved' ? ' selected=selected' : '') . '>Disapproved</option>';
    echo '</select>';

I really do not know why this is breaking. When i click submit a message appears that the data has successfully been entered into the database. However no data is entered. Many Thanks

Answer 1

Well, Im surprised its not throwing an error..

echo '<select name="order_status['.$i.']" id="id" onchange="showUser(this.value)" >

says

that $_POST['order_status'] is an array..

So, I would suggest you echo out $sql, and I would imagine you will see why its not updated the record you thought.

Im guessing it should read

$sql = 'UPDATE Orders SET status="' .$status  '" WHERE   Orderno="' .$orderno ' . '"';