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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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);
>
> ?>
>
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