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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:57:42+00:00

I wonder whether someone can help me please. I’m trying to put together a

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I wonder whether someone can help me please.

I’m trying to put together a form that I can use to search for member details from a mySQL database, retrieve the results so that they appear in pre-determined text boxes on the same form and make updates to send back to the database.

The code I’m using is as follows:

PHP

<?php 
require("phpfile.php"); 

// Opens a connection to a MySQL server 

$connection=mysql_connect ("hostname", $username, $password); 
if (!$connection) { die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());} 

// Set the active MySQL database 

$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection); 
if (!$db_selected) { 
die ('Can\'t use db : ' . mysql_error()); 
} 

$email = $_POST['email']; 
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM userdetails WHERE emailaddress like '%$emailaddress%'"); 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) 
{ 
echo $row['forename']; 
echo $row['surname']; 
echo "<br />"; 
} 
?>

HTML FORM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="search.php" method="post">      
  <p>Search: 
    <input name="emailaddress" type="text" id="emailaddress" />
    <br />     
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />     
</p>
  <p>
    <label>
    <input name="forename" type="text" id="forename" value="<?php echo $forename; ?>"  />
    </label>
  </p>
  <p>
    <input name="surname" type="text" id="surname" value="<?php echo $surname; ?>" />
  </p>
  <p>&nbsp;  </p>
</form> 
</body>
</html>

I’m using the email address to search for the desired record, but the problem I’m having is that all of the records are retrieved rather than the one I have entered the details for, and the results don’t appear in the forename and surname fields on the form.

Could someone perhaps please show me what I’m doing wrong

Kind regards

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  1. Editorial Team

    … but if you press submit button to update white email it should look like this:

    if(isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) {
$fname = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['forename']);
$sname = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['surname']);
$emai= mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
mysql_query(UPDATE `table` SET `forename` = $fname, `surname` = $sname, `email`=$email WHERE id = `id`);
}
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