peasepud 59 Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Im stuck just started to try and teach meself this thing for the website so I thought Id have a go at a ridiculously easy calendar thing but no matter what I do or how much I google I cant suss whats up. Heres what I have so far: A MySQL database called peasepu_whowhere which contains 1 table called items which in turn has 4 fields called who, when, loc & killby A file called testphp.php which is <html> <head><title>Get data</title></head> <body> <?php $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost",myusername,mypassword) or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db ("peasepu_whowhere"); ?> <form action="insert.php" method="post"> Who: <input type="text" name="person"><br> Where: <input type="text" name="place"><br> When: <input type="text" name="datethere"><br> Kill date: <input type="text" name="leavetill"><br> <input type="Submit"> </form> </body> </html> I know the connection is working because if I change the myusername slightly I get a cant connect error. and then insert.php containing : <html> <head><title>Insert a record</title></head> <body> <?php $per=$_POST['person']; $place=$_POST['place']; $datethere=$_POST['datethere']; $leavetill=$_POST['leavetill']; $sql = "INSERT INTO `items` (`who`, `when`, `loc`, `killby`) VALUES ($per, $place,$datethere, $leavetill )"; mysql_query($sql); ?> </body> </html> I dont get any error messages or anything strange, just nothing happens, no records are added to the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Should those single quotes not be in the VALUES part of the INSERT statement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 Should those single quotes not be in the VALUES part of the INSERT statement? 53262[/snapback] tried that, nowt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 "INSERT INTO items (who, when, loc, killby) VALUES ('$per','$place','$datethere','$leavetill')" Everything else looks perfect. The only other thing I'd try would be putting the 'or die' statement on the second page again and then replacing the variables with static values just to rule out a problem there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2182 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Try this: $sql = "INSERT INTO `items` (who, when, loc, killby) VALUES ($per, $place,$datethere, $leavetill )"; if ( !($result = $db->mysql_query($sql)) ) { die('Could not insert data into items table. SQL statement: ' . $sql); } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 Try this: $sql = "INSERT INTO `items` (who, when, loc, killby) VALUES ($per, $place,$datethere, $leavetill )"; if ( !($result = $db->mysql_query($sql)) ) { die('Could not insert data into items table. SQL statement: ' . $sql); } 53374[/snapback] Nope, although at least I now get an error message: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/peasepu/........../insert.php on line 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2182 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Howsabout this: $sql = "INSERT INTO `items` (who, when, loc, killby) VALUES ($per, $place, $datethere, $leavetill)"; if ( !($result = mysql_query($sql)) ) { $message = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n"; $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $sql; die($message); } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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