Question

It’s probably a stupid mistake on my side, I know.

I was trying to add a suffix to all post titles and a specific tag to all my posts in my blog (blog is a custom coded project for learning purposes). Once that wasn’t working, I tried to update it manually using phpMyAdmin, but with no success.

So, why is this not working:

UPDATE
    posts
SET
    title = 'myNewTitle',
    tags  = 'myStupidTag'
WHERE
    id = 1

All I’m getting is OK status from mysql, but with 0 rows affected. However, if I use same ID in WHERE clause in a SELECT, I get post data just fine.

Is smt wrong with my query?

And here is the table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `posts` (
  `ID` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `title` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
  `link` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
  `rating` tinyint(3) unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `html` text,
  `tags` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
  `description` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=80 ;

Answer 1

Are you really sure that PHPMyAdmin says OK to your UPDATE query although there are no rows affected?

Your WHERE clause is wrong – the ID field has to be uppercase – not lowercase!

Try instead:

UPDATE posts
SET title = 'myNewTitle',
    tags = 'myStupidTag'
WHERE ID = 1

kind regards

EDIT:

wrong – user ajreal already corrected me!

But: your query must work – I tried it with your table scheme and some random generated data…