Re: Unable to send variables to MySQL table

print $add_to_db; should print out the entire insert line and you can just double check that your values are full, otherwise like Jay said I would check and make sure the user you have in your connect string can write to the db. On 11/9/05, Stewart Priest <smiley@stewartpriest.com> wrote: > Hi folks... a bit of a newbie question I'm afraid... > > I've written this script shown below. It gets its variables from a form, and then it > (supposedly!) writes these values into a MySQL table ('invoices'). > > The script executes with no errors, but when I check the table, the table is still empty. I can > manually insert the data directly into the table, and when I echo the variables in the script, the > values are displayed whe I run it, but for reasons unknown, the values are not written to the table. > > Any ideas? The code is below. > > Many thanks. > Stewart > > <?php > > // this opens the connection to the db > include 'library/opendb.php'; > > // this adds detals to the invoice table > $item1_desc = $_REQUEST['item1_desc']; > $item2_desc = $_REQUEST['item2_desc']; > $item3_desc = $_REQUEST['item3_desc']; > $item4_desc = $_REQUEST['item4_desc']; > $item1_cost = $_REQUEST['item1_cost']; > $item2_cost = $_REQUEST['item2_cost']; > $item3_cost = $_REQUEST['item3_cost']; > $item4_cost = $_REQUEST['item4_cost']; > $delivery_cost = $_REQUEST['delivery_cost']; > > $add_to_db = "insert into invoices (item1_desc, item1_cost, item2_desc, item2_cost, > item3_desc, item3_cost, item4_desc, item4_cost, delivery_cost) values ('$item1_desc', > '$item1_cost', '$item2_desc', '$item2_cost', '$item3_desc', > '$item3_cost', '$item4_desc', '$item4_cost', > '$delivery_cost')"; > mysql_query($add_to_db); > > ?> >