Question

I’m trying to update a table in php and I keep getting syntax errors.

Here’s what I’ve got:

if (isset($_POST['inspect'])) {
    // get gis_id from pole table to update fm_poles
    $sql = "select gis_id from poles where pole_number = '".$_GET['polenumber']."'";
    $rs = pg_query($sql) or die('Query failed: ' . pg_last_error());
    $gisid = $row['gis_id'];
    pg_free_result($rs);

    // update fm_poles
    $sql = "update fm_poles set inspect ='".$_POST['inspect']."',co_date = '".$_POST['co_date']."',size = '".$_POST['size']."',date = ".$_POST['date'].",brand ='".$_POST['brand']."',backspan = ".$_POST['backspan']." WHERE gis_id = ".$gisid."";
    print $sql."<BR>\n";
    $rs = pg_query($sql) or die('Query failed: ' . pg_last_error());
    pg_free_result($rs);
}

This is the error it gives me:

update fm_poles set inspect =’20120208′,co_date = ‘20030710’,size =
’30-5′,date = 0,brand =’test’,backspan = 300 WHERE gis_id =

The error message:

Query failed: ERROR: syntax error at end of input at character 129

Answer 1

$gisid doesn’t seem to have a value, or it might have some strange characters in it, so your where clause is saying “WHERE gis_id =”.

So how about escaping it with mysql_real_escape_string:

WHERE gis_id = ".mysql_real_escape_string($gisid);

And use var_dump($gisid) to make sure it’s getting set correctly.