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data key in by user not shown

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:15 am
by allensim81
Hi, i checked my code and trying my best to improve it. But wonder why, the data that key in by user is still not showing... I had created mysql db and table... but wonder y data key in by user stl wont be able to insert into db and shown out in the browser....
Can you please guide me?
Thanks in advance

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<html>
<?php
$database="websites_database";
$user = 'root';
$password = '';
mysql_connect("localhost",$user,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$query = "INSERT INTO websitestable VALUES ('$websites','$destination')";
$query="SELECT * FROM websitestable";
$result=mysql_query($query);
 
$num=mysql_num_rows($result);
 
mysql_close();
 
 
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
 
$websites=mysql_result($result,$i,"websites");
$destination=mysql_result($result,$i,"destination");
 
 
$i++;
}
 
?>
 
 
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Websites</font></th>
<th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Destination</font></th>
</tr>
 
<?
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
 
$websites=mysql_result($result,$i,"websites");
$destination=mysql_result($result,$i,"destination");
?>
 
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $websites; ?></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $destination; ?></font></td>
</tr>
 
<?
$i++;
}
 
 
echo "</table>";
?>
 
<body>
<h1>Goverment Websites</h1>
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<p>Website address:</p>
http:// <input type="text" name="websites" size="60">
destination: <input type="text" name="destination" size="30">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</html>
 

Re: data key in by user not shown

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:31 am
by Christopher
You are doing mysql_close(); which closes the database connection before you call mysql_result(). You don't need the close anyway. PHP will close all connection after the script terminates.