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- [Narrator] Now that we've learned how to create records, we're ready to move to the next part of CRUD, which is updating. Updating in the CMS is a two-step process. The first thing we need to do is we need to find a record in the database and get it's current data and then display it for the user in a form that they can edit. That's similar to the process that we've had for reading records so far. We're going to read back a record from the database, turn it into a PHP object, and use it to present a form to the user. And then, when the form is submitted with the user's edits, we want to update the record values that are in the database using an object. So we've got to have both parts of that process. In this movie we're going to be looking at the first one, how we can retrieve data and put it on a form for the user to edit. And then in the next movie, we'll look at how we can actually update it in the database. So…

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