Why won't this query go through?

From:	Mike Shanley	Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:24:50 +0000
Subject:	Why won't this query go through?
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Hi, I am just not understanding what I could have possibly done wrong with this query. All of the variables are good, without special characters in any sense of the word... So why isn't it importing anything? Thanks! $q = "INSERT INTO visitors(username,password,email,firstname,lastname,birthdate,verifythis)

                       VALUES ('".$username."',
                               '".md5($password1)."',
                               '".$email."',
                               '".$firstname."',
                               '".$lastname."',
                               '".$birthdate."',
                               '".$verifythis."');";

mysql_query($q); -- Mike Shanley ~you are almost there~