Question

I’m trying to get a variable from the URL, but for some reason, I can’t get it to work. This is all coming from another website’s form, that’s why I need to get it from the URL. This is what I have right now:

if (isset($_GET['PTS'])) {
    $sPTS = htmlentities($_GET['PTS']);

if(isset($_GET['submit']))
  { mysql_query("UPDATE table1 SET $sPTS=1, ENTRY=5") or die (mysql_error()); }}

Thanks for your help…I’m still new to this and learning.

Answer 1

Try

if(isset($_GET['submit']))
{ mysql_query("UPDATE table1 SET `".$sPTS."`=1, `ENTRY`=5") or die (mysql_error()); }}

also you should be using mysql_real_escape string on those $_GET values

$sPTS = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_GET['PTS']));