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Asked: 2026-05-24T05:07:48+00:00

this the condition: there is a form in html and php haivng around 120

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this the condition: there is a form in html and php haivng around 120 fields its for a website i am making this form on submitting goes to a php page where i first retrive all the values using $_REQUEST[]and then using insert query insert all of them in their specific coloums in the same table in my mysql database. Now i will have to do all the process again for updating these values. Becuase syntax for insert query and update query are quite different .

I dont want to write another 100 lines of code . Is there any way to use the code i wrote inside my insert query to use to update the data.?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Another alternative, and depending on requirements and keys, you could use:

    replace into tbl (<cols>) values (<vals>)

    which will insert if not exist, or replace based on keys (insert/update in one query)

    or if you are only inserting and don’t want to insert twice, you could use:

    insert ignore into tbl (<cols>) values (<vals>)

    where if the record is already inserted based on keys, it is gracefully ignored

    for more info http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html

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