Title: How to update database
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# How to update database

 *  [Kucko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kucko/)
 * (@kucko)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-update-database/)
 * Hi everyone!
 * Now that I have made a good-looking options-page for my WordPress plugin, I have
   to send the information from my form to my database.
 * When I activate the plugin, it automaticly creates a new table, so that is done,
   in the table, there is a text from the beginning, I see the text on the dashboard(
   where I also have my plugin), now, I want to REPLACE that text, with the new 
   text I write in the options-page.
 * Here is the code I’ve used so far:
 *     ```
       <form method="post" action="options.php">
       <?php wp_nonce_field('update-options'); ?>
   
       Edit your personal note below:<br>
       <textarea name="k_note" cols="70" rows="10"><?php echo get_option('new_option_name'); ?></textarea>
       <input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" />
       <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="k_note" /><br><br>
       <input type="submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php _e('Save Note') ?>" />
   
       </form>
       ```
   
 * As far as i’m concerned, everything is looking fine (because i’ve read like a
   million articles about creating an options-page”.
 * Now, as I see, the form is senting the data to “options.php”, but in all the 
   articles i have read, not one of them tells me what to type in THAT specific 
   file.
 * So now, I ask YOU – does anyone in here know what I sould write in the “options.
   php”???
 * I’m really stuck here.. 🙁
 * Best Regards
    Kucko

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