Question

I’ve been playing with this :

foreach($textnode as $key => $value) {

$value = stripslashes($value);
 $value = mysql_real_escape_string($value, $con);

 mysql_query("INSERT INTO paragraphs (paragraphs, url)
 VALUES ('$value', '$url')");



}

I’ve been trying to update the column “paragraphs” for where the url already exists

This doesn’t seem to work well as it just replaces each row in paragraphs with the 1st paragraph. (repeats it over and over again)

mysql_query("UPDATE paragraphs SET paragraphs = '$value'
 WHERE url = '$url'"); 

Answer 1

Is the url field unique?

If not, add a UNIQUE constraint on it and use INSERT INTO . . . ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE with something like this:

 mysql_query("INSERT INTO paragraphs (paragraphs, url)
                VALUES ('$value', '$url')
              ON DUPLICATE KEY
                UPDATE paragraphs = '$value'
             ");

or (do you want to “append” the new '$value' when url already exists?):

 mysql_query("INSERT INTO paragraphs (paragraphs, url)
                VALUES ('$value', '$url')
              ON DUPLICATE KEY
                UPDATE paragraphs = CONCAT(paragraphs, '$value')
             ");