Inserting a String Variable into mysql_query() returns "Query was empty" error

I am creating a string out of bunch of variables and an array and I need it to become a query which will make me a table. It looks like this when I echo it: CREATE TABLE How Are You (Reply1 VARCHAR(255), Reply2 VARCHAR(255), Reply3 VARCHAR(255), Reply4 VARCHAR(255), Reply5 VARCHAR(255), date DATE) and it appears in the code under the name $all_sections, however when I put into the mysql_query function like so: $sql = mysql_query($all_sections); it returns "Query was empty" error, any ideas? Thanks in Advance. R> ________________________--__-______-______________ eat pasta type fasta