whats wrong with my sql insert statement?

From: Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:14:36 +0000
Subject: whats wrong with my sql insert statement?
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Hi I am using redhat 7.3 with mysql-3.23.49-3 php-4.1.2-7.3.4 apache-1.3.23-11. I want to insert few values into a mysql table. This input.php sort works. it will add a new entray to the table but with blank values. What did I do wrong? # # # file name input.php <?php $db_name ="cheese_catalog"; $table_name = "user"; $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost","test","test") or die("Couldn't Connect."); $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select database."); if ("none_required"=="none_required") { $sql = "INSERT INTO $table_name (first_name,location,phone,messages) VALUES (\"$first_name\",\"$location\",\"$phone\", \"$messages\");"; $result = @mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die("Error #". mysql_errno() . ": " . mysql_error()); include("input_added.html"); } ?> # # file name input.html # <html> <head> <title>New Record</title> </head> <body> <p>Please fill out the following information:</p> <form method="post" action="input.php"" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
     <tr>
          <td width="25%">first_name:</td>
          <td width="75%"><input name="first_name" type="text" size=40 maxlength=255 value=""></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
          <td width="25%">location:</td>
          <td width="75%"><input name="location" type="text" size=40 maxlength=255 value=""></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
          <td width="25%">phone:</td>
          <td width="75%"><input name="phone" type="text" size=40 maxlength=255 value=""></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <td width="25%">messages:</td>
          <td width="75%"><input name="messages" type="text" size=40 maxlength=255 value=""></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
          <td width="25%">&nbsp;</td>
          <td width="75%" align="left"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Enter">&nbsp<input type="reset" name="reset"></td>
     </tr>
</table> </form> </body> </html> # #

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