Question

I’m trying to get php to update a MySQL table using UPDATE statement but it simply won’t work. Here’s the code I wrote:

$add = "1";

$counter=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM frases WHERE id = '".$id."'");

while ($ntcounter=mysql_fetch_array($counter)) {    
    mysql_query("UPDATE frases SET count = '".$ntcounter[count]+$add."' WHERE id = '".$id);
}

As you can see, I am basically trying to update the SQL record to keep track of how many times a specific content ID was visited.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You don’t really need two queries. You should just be able to update like this

mysql_query("UPDATE frases SET `count` = `count` + 1 WHERE id = ".$id);