Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/02/08 01:46

Aaron Gray wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:y_WdnRKnboihf-fanZ2dnUVZ_sPinZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>> I have a MySQL table of pages each with a 'title' and 'page' fields.
>>>
>>> How do I do either an UPDATE if the pages 'title' exists or an INSERT if
>>> it
>>> does not ?
>>>
>>> The code I have written does not seem to do the job correctly.
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query( "SELECT page FROM pages WHERE title = '" .
>>> $title
>>> . "';");
>>>
>>> $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result, MYSQL_ASSOC);
>>>
>>> if ( isset( $row["title"]) && $row[title] == $title)
>>> {
>>> $result = mysql_query( "UPDATE pages SET page = '". $page . "'
>>> WHERE
>>> title = '" .$title . "';");
>>> if ($result)
>>> mysql_query( "COMMIT;");
>>> }
>>> else
>>> {
>>> $result = mysql_query( "INSERT INTO pages SET title ='" . $title
>>> .
>>> "', page = '" . $page . "';");
>>> if ($result)
>>> mysql_query( "COMMIT;");
>>> };
>>>
>>> This code is buggy and doing an insert rather than an update. How would
>>> you approach this task ?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Try comp.databases.mysql. This is a PHP newsgroup.
>
> The problems I am having seem to be the PHP side of things not the SQL side.
>
> Aaron
>
>
Well you have parentheses round one array index and not another..so
start there.
f ( isset( $row["title"]) && $row[title] == $title)

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