Question

So this is the culprit

mysql_query("UPDATE coordrating SET submissions = '2' WHERE rating = 2");

Now this works fine UNLESS I try to use the index (which is the index of my table) values.
So this doesn’t work:

mysql_query("UPDATE coordrating SET index = '2' WHERE rating = 2");

or

mysql_query("UPDATE coordrating SET submissions = '2' WHERE index = 2");

This is the screenshot of my database structure

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/694/problemmysql.png/

I’m completely baffled.

Answer 1

Try this way:

UPDATE `coordrating` SET `index` = '2' WHERE `rating` = 2

Backquotes are used to delimit table or field names, because sometimes table or fieldname can match MySQL operator.