(hug)

I might just keep the original code :P

Anyway, what makes this "better"?

$editnews =MYSQL_QUERY("UPDATE nmr SET code='$code',labbookref='$labbookref',contents='$contents',solvent='$solvent',elements='$elements',servercode='$servercode',time='$time',machine='$machine',year='$year',month='$month',nmre1='$nmre1',nmrn1='$nmrn1',nmre2='$nmre2',nmrn2='$nmrn2',nmre3='$nmre3',nmrn3='$nmrn3',nmre4='$nmre4',nmrn4='$nmrn4',nmre5='$nmre5',nmrn5='$nmrn5' WHERE id='$id' ");
 

Id is mediumint(5).

Just tried echoing it and it doesn't seem to echo $id which is odd.

Actually, I may know why.

Right, id issue sorted, when I echo it and run it directly in mysql (phpmyadmin) it works fine, no errors, and the database updates as expected.

:@

if ( ! isNumeric($id) ){ throwError('Invalid id supplied'); }

Since it's all to do with the same database/site I'll ask it in this thread.

Is it possible to have a link/button on a website that tells the server to execute a batch file of some sort?

For my site I use Irfanview to convert PDFs to PNGs which are dumped in a certain folder, and I do this manually. After looking around it seems that you can run Irfanview from the command line with whatever switches you want, I'll have to look into what exactly I need, but only if it's worth doing.

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{ $prefixweb = "./nmr/{$row['machine']}/{$row['year']}/{$row['month']}/data/AB/nmr/{$row['servercode']}/";
    $prefixuni = "file:///N:/vol3/users/snmrdata/{$row['machine']}/{$row['year']}/{$row['month']}/data/AB/nmr/{$row['servercode']}/";
 
    echo " STUFF ";
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{$prefixweb = "./nmr/{$row['machine']}/{$row['year']}/{$row['month']}/data/AB/nmr/{$row['servercode']}/";
 
if ($row['machine']=="varian")
{ 
$prefixuni = "file:///N:/vol3/users/snmrdata/{$row['year']}/service/{$row['month']}/4_StuYEAR/{$row['servercode']}/"
 
else 
 
$prefixuni = "file:///N:/vol3/users/snmrdata/{$row['machine']}/{$row['year']}/{$row['month']}/data/AB/nmr/{$row['servercode']}";
}
    echo " STUFF ";
}

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in C:\wamp\www\full-iftest.php on line 41

What about the missing { before the else?

and by before I do ofcourse mean after.

Yay, another question, and most likely an easy one to answer. I am trying to make my thingy easier to make changes to in the future and because I am currently doing things in a retarded manner I want to change things.

I currently have a few separate pages/files to show entries in certain ways

full.php - standard single entry based on id
full5.php - as above but 5 entries
fullc.php - pulls single entry based on code
fullr.php - pulls single entry based on lab book ref

I realise this is very much the wrong way to do things, hence why I want to change it.

I currently decide things things based on using $_GET

.....php?id=xxx
.....php?code=ATxxx
.....php?ref=ATrxxx

I have easily got rid of the one to pull 5 entries so that's not a problem. I want to now combine all the others so I can for example use any of these:

full.php?id=xxx
full.php?code=ATxxx
full.php?ref=ATrxxx

I use these to get the values:

$tableid = $_GET['id'];
$tablecode = $_GET['code'];
$ref = $_GET['ref'];

But how do I now tell it to fetch the record based on which is actually present?

There will only ever be one of those there at any one time. I assume using some sort of if else null statements would sort it but I'm not sure how to go about it.

 
$get = $_GET['get'];
 
if $get == ('AT###')
{$query  = "SELECT * FROM nmr WHERE code = $ref LIMIT $ent ";}
 
else if $get == ("ATr###")
{$query = "SELECT * FROM nmr WHERE labbookref = $ref ";}
 
else $get == ("###") 
{$query = "SELECT * FROM nmr WHERE id >= $ref LIMIT $ent ";}