Text Field

Adam17

Im VERY new to PHP and in need of a very newbie advice with a little problem.

I basically have a function and want to add a text field to a page in which people type whatever in it and it updates a certain column in the data. ie: username

I would usually use this:

$query = doquery("UPDATE {{table}} SET username='Whatever Here' WHERE id='".$userrow["id"]."' LIMIT 1", "users");

But i wont people to be able to specify exactly what their username should be changed to, instead of being fixed to the Whatever Here above.

Im sorry if i dont make much sense, but im new and dont know a lot of what im talking about.

Thanks

yelvington

Read the section of the manual that explains "variables from outside PHP," specifically GET and POST, and the section of the manual that explains how you can embed variables in double-quoted strings.

Start here:
http://us4.php.net/variables

and here:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Adam17

Im sorry but i dont understand.

Its only something simple but im still not able to..

I only want users to be able to type into a text field to update a column in the database named 'charname'

I can do the text field but i dont know how to update the database