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Update Data in A Database

The UPDATE statement is used to update existing records in a database table. It requires specifying the table, the columns and values to update, and a WHERE clause to identify which records to update. The example shows updating the age from 35 to 36 for the person with the first name of "Peter" and last name of "Griffin" in the "Persons" table. PHP's mysql_query function executes the SQL UPDATE statement to make the change in the database.

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Update Data in A Database

The UPDATE statement is used to update existing records in a database table. It requires specifying the table, the columns and values to update, and a WHERE clause to identify which records to update. The example shows updating the age from 35 to 36 for the person with the first name of "Peter" and last name of "Griffin" in the "Persons" table. PHP's mysql_query function executes the SQL UPDATE statement to make the change in the database.

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Update Data In a Database

The UPDATE statement is used to update existing records in a table.

Syntax

UPDATE table_name
SET column1=value, column2=value2,...
WHERE some_column=some_value

Note: Notice the WHERE clause in the UPDATE syntax. The WHERE clause specifies
which record or records that should be updated. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records
will be updated!

To learn more about SQL, please visit our SQL tutorial.

To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query() function. This
function is used to send a query or command to a MySQL connection.

Example

Earlier in the tutorial we created a table named "Persons". Here is how it looks:

FirstName LastName Age


Peter Griffin 35
Glenn Quagmire 33

The following example updates some data in the "Persons" table:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);

mysql_query("UPDATE Persons SET Age = '36'


WHERE FirstName = 'Peter' AND LastName = 'Griffin'");

mysql_close($con);
?>

After the update, the "Persons" table will look like this:

FirstName LastName Age


Peter Griffin 36
Glenn Quagmire 33

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