Re: parse error newbie :)

looks like you want '' as your first value, as opposed to " and jic, the following will create a parse error too : echo "foo"bar"; these won't : echo 'foo"bar'; echo "foo\"bar"; silly typos :) regards, Philip Olson On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Caleb Carvalho wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to add data to table called program > am getting parse error line 14 which is this one $sybase_query="INSERT into > program VALUES(",'$add')"; > > what am i doing wrong? > the full code is: > > //if txt field wasn't blank enter data > if ($add) > { > //insert txt to db > $sybase_query="INSERT into program VALUES(",'$add')"; > $result=sybase_query($sybase_query); > > > > Caleb Carvalho > Application Engineer > LoadRunner/APM > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enterprise Testing and Performance Management Solutions > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mercury Interactive > 410 Frimley Business Park > Frimley, Surrey. GU16 7ST > United Kingdom > Telephone : +44 (0)1276 808300 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >