Re: UPDATE - Changing Password

Yasmine Kedoo typed this on 04/17/2004 02:28 PM:
> Hi.
> 
> Does anyone know how to use UPDATE with PHP for changing a password? 
> I've tried the following code:
> 
> $query = "UPDATE patperinfo SET trim(password)='$newpw' WHERE 
> trim(gpid)='$gpidno'";
> $result = pg_exec($database, $query);
> 
> where new $newpw & $gpidno are the values entered into a form then 
> passed to the script.
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near 
> "(" at character 27 in /home/webpages/yamkedoo/Tests/chpw1.php on line 48
> 
> where the error is on the line: $result = pg_exec($database, $query);
> 
> 

$query = "UPDATE tablename SET password = '$newpw'  WHERE ...

I don't know why you'd trim a fieldname while setting it.

-Robby

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