Question

I have this statement which calls insert data to table “users” when table “users” already has data. I need to update the count of users every time i load this script. My update statement isn’t working.

Any clue? No update happened and the old numbers still exist.

$query = sprintf("INSERT INTO users VALUES ('%s','%s',%s)",
                mysql_real_escape_string($user['username']),
                mysql_real_escape_string($user['name']),
                mysql_real_escape_string($user['countusers']),
            $res = mysql_query($query);
            $query = "UPDATE users (username, name, countuser) VALUES ('$username',        '$name', '$countuser')";
            $res = mysql_query($query);

Answer 1

INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE should do what you’re looking for if username is a primary or unique key. More information in the manual.