No... the code is fine... double quotes in PHP tell it to parse the string for variable names and replace as necessary.
Why are you concatenating the
mysql_query return value with the
mysql_error return value?
Try this:
[php]$sql = "UPDATE `namitposts` SET `title` = '$topic' , `date` = '$date' ', `postee` = '$postee', `post` = '$post_text' , `ip` = '$ip' WHERE `id` = '$del'";
if ($query = mysql_query($sql))
{
// do stuff
}
else
{
echo '<pre>' . $sql . "\n" . mysql_error() . '</pre>';
}[/php]
If it fails, scan the SQL for any errors.
Unsolved 
