Time for action – updating an existing item

When updating a new item, the special UPDATE SQL keyword can be used. The following code updates an existing item:

db_execute("
 UPDATE `plugin_cbEnhancedInfo_dataTable`
 Set
   hostId=$s_dataHostId,
   longitude='$s_dataLongitude',
   latitude='$s_dataLatitude',
   contactAddress='$s_dataContactAddress',
   additionalInformation='$s_dataAdditionalInformation'
 WHERE
   Id='$dataId'
");

As with the creation of a new item, this code is also missing from the file. You can enter it after the comment in the following section:

 if ( (isset ($_POST['contactAddress'])) && 
     (isset ($_POST['update_component_import']) ) ) {
   /* Add Update statements here */
}

Let's look how the db_execute command will look with real data. Open a MySQL ...

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