form submits blank records!

[AzeemNYC]

Everytime I submit my form.. the id increments but everyting else comes out as default values i.e. 0, 0, 0000-00-00

This is my table:

CREATE TABLE editions (
editionid int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
volume int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
printnumber int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
releastedate date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
PRIMARY KEY (editionid)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

This my code of the page that is being 'post'ed to:

<?php

$volume=isset($POST['volume']);
$printnumber=isset($POST['printnumber']);
$releasedate=isset($_POST['releasedate']);

$link_id = mysql_connect ("runtech1", "the_mirror", "whatever");
mysql_select_db("the_mirror", $link_id);

$sql = "INSERT INTO editions VALUES (NULL, '$volume', '$printnumber', '$releasedate')";
$result=mysql_query($sql,$link_id);
echo $result;
echo ("Edition Successfully added");
echo $volume;
echo $printnumber;
echo $releasedate;
?>

[laserlight]

isset returns a boolean value.

You should use it to check, and then assign, not assign the value returned by it.

[AzeemNYC]

oh, but even if I take out the isset it still does the same thing...

[AzeemNYC]

If I put:

if ((isset($volume))!=1) {
$volume=$_POST['volume'];
}

I get this stupid error:

Notice: Undefined index: volume in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mirror\addeditionproc.php on line 4

the reason why I was using isset was to avoid this error in the first place...

BTW line 4 is:
$volume=$_POST['volume'];

[AzeemNYC]

ok this worked for me:

<?php

if ((isset($submit))!=1) {

$volume=$HTTP_POST_VARS['volume'];
$printnumber=$HTTP_POST_VARS['printnumber'];
$releasedate=$HTTP_POST_VARS['releasedate'];

}

$link_id = mysql_connect ("runtech1", "the_mirror", "whatever");
mysql_select_db("the_mirror", $link_id);

$sql = "INSERT INTO editions VALUES (NULL, '$volume', '$printnumber', '$releasedate')";
$result=mysql_query($sql,$link_id);

echo ("Edition Successfully added");

?>

thanks for your help.....