failure to post PHP update to MySQL

Question

i have a button i am trying to get where if i click it it updates the column 'gorg' in the table users to giver according to the current user (session) logged in. Everytime i click the button i get

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Here is the top of the php page (BTW i am 100% positive my DB Connection info is correct)

<?php
session_start();
include('src/sql_handler.php'); //this is where my DB Connection info is located
include('src/facebook_handler_core.php');
if(isset($_POST['submitgiver'])) {
    $query = "UPDATE users SET gorg='giver' WHERE email='".mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['email'])."'";
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

}

{
  if(isset($_SESSION['gorg'])=="Giver")
  {
    header('Location: picktreetype.php');
  }
  else if(isset($_SESSION['gorg'])=="Gatherer")
  {
    header('Location: gatherermap.php');
  }

}

?>

and now for the html

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">

<input type="submit" class="button orange" name="submitgiver" value="Giver">

</form>

UPDATE:

heres the SQL_HANDLER

<?php


class MySQL_Con {

    private $host = 'localhost',

            $user = 'fruitfo1_admin',

            $pass = 'password',

            $db = 'fruitfo1_fruitforest',

            $_CON;



    function MySQL_Con() {

        $this->_CON = mysql_connect($this->host, $this->user, $this->pass);

        if(!$this->_CON)

            die(mysql_error());

        else {

            $select_db = mysql_select_db($this->db);

            if(!$select_db)

                die('Error Connecting To Database'.mysql_error());

        }

    }

    function End_Con() {

        mysql_close($this->_CON);

    }

}

?>

Answer 1

Apparently your connection setup doesn't include a password. Please post the sql_handler (WITH OBFUSCATED password) to be able to debug further.

If you're 100% positive it's correct, as you're saying, you can try explicitly passing sql handle to mysql_query .

Another note, mysql_* are deprecated, you really should consider switching to either mysqli or PDO .

Also, using root user for ANY kinds of web-applications is a no-no.

Answer 2

Your DB doesn't have a password. Try this

  private $host = 'localhost',

        $user = 'fruitfo1_admin',

        $pass = '',

        $db = 'fruitfo1_fruitforest',

        $_CON;

Answer 3

i found my issue, it did have to do with exactly what i thought it was. heres my updated code

if(isset($_POST['submitgiver'])) {
$mysql_hostname = "localhost";
$mysql_user = "fruitfo1_admin";
$mysql_password = "password";
$mysql_database = "fruitfo1_fruitforest";
$bd = mysql_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_user, $mysql_password) or die("Could not connect database");
mysql_select_db($mysql_database, $bd) or die("Could not select database");
$query = "UPDATE users SET gorg='giver' WHERE email='".mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['email'])."'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
}

basically that IF statement that was attempting to POST wasnt linking back to my handler, so i placed the SAME db connection from the handler and carried it over inside the if isset statement and it worked!