Question

I wouldn’t ask if i wasn’t sure that i have 100% no idea why this isn’t working, so, in PHP i’m simply trying to update a value in the MySQL database:

The field im updating
– Name: read
– Type: tinyint
– Length: 1

Here is the PHP code:

do_SQL(“UPDATE messages SET read=1
WHERE id='”.$id.”‘”);

The do_SQL function is working for everything else, so it’s something wrong with this statement. I have tried putting 1 in ‘1’ and it still didn’t work.m
The error is:

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 ‘read=1 WHERE
id=’1” at line 1

Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

read Is a keyword in MySQL, so you can’t use it without quoting it (with backticks):

do_SQL("UPDATE messages SET `read`=1 WHERE id='".$id."'");