Hi, I summarized what to do if a query fails. It's advisable to: + var_dump() all variables ($connection, $query and all used in $query) + log your queries to see what postgres tries to do + check the table definition + use explicit column list in INSERT (even so, future pg release may not support abbreviated INSERT syntax) and some additional notes not related to the original topic: | $conn=pg_connect("host=192.168.0.2 user=postgres password=postgres | dbname=checkbook"); + do not connect in to postgres as superuser! + escape and quote all user input sent to database backend! (consider using addslashes(), sprintf(), etc.) For detailed information visit: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.database.php ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hillensbeck, Preston" <PHillensbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: [PHP] | I am currently experiencing a problem passing data from a PHP page to | PostgreSQL. | | I am passing different data types like numeric, and text. Let me show you | some of the code I am using.... | | This is the code that I am using to pass the input data to a page called | "checkbook2.php" | | <form action="checkbook2.php" method="GET"> | <p align="center">Check Date | <input type="text" name="check_date" VALUE=""> | Check Number | <input type="text" name="check_number" VALUE=""> | Check Payee | <input type="text" name="check_payee" VALUE=""> | Check Amount | <input type="text" name="check_amount" VALUE=""> | </p> | <p align="center">Check Transaction Type | <input type="text" name="check_trans_type" VALUE=""> | </p> | <input type=submit value="Add New Entry"> | </form> | | This is the data from the checkbook2.php that talks to the PostgreSQL | Server. It is running version 7.2. | | $conn=pg_connect("host=192.168.0.2 user=postgres password=postgres | dbname=checkbook"); | | @$sql="INSERT INTO checking VALUES('$check_date', '$check_num', | '$check_pay', '$check_amount', '$check_trans_type');"; | | $result=pg_exec($conn, $sql); | | check_data is type text | check_num is type int4 | check_pay is type text | check_amount is type numeric(8,2) | check_trans_type is type text | | The error that comes up is ... | Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: Bad numeric input format | 'check_trans_type' in /etc/httpd/htdocs/checkbook2.php on line 41 | | Anyone know what could be going on here?? Please let me know, thanks in | advance! :) | | | | ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- | TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command | (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)