Dear all , Could anyone help me to use crypt() function on window system ? , I want to use all libraries that currently not support in PHP like crypt(), but I want to use it.How could i make it work? -----Original Message----- From: Lang Sharpe [mailto:lang@myself.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:45 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net; php-general@lists.php.net; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: $_POST in MySQL query issue... > $sql="insert into $table set Name = '$_POST["elementName"]'"; The problem with this is that you need to use curly braces around the variable being substituted in the string. Also use single quotes around the array index. $sql="insert into $table set Name = '{$_POST['elementName']}'"; See the manual.. (Variable parsing section) http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Lang Adam Reiswig wrote: > Greetings to all. I am trying for the life of me to place a $_POST[] > variable in my MySQL query. I am running the latest stable versions of > PHP, MySQL and Apache 2 on my Win2kPro machine. My register_globals are > set to off in my php.ini. My code I am attempting create is basically > as follows: > > $table="elements"; > $sql="insert into $table set Name = '$elementName'"; > > This works with register_globals set to on. But, I want to be able to > turn that off. My code then, I am guessing, be something as follows: > > $table="elements"; > $sql="insert into $table set Name = '$_POST["elementName"]'"; > > Unfortunately this and every other combination I can think of, > combinations of quotes that is, does not work. I believe the source of > the problem is the quotes within quotes within quotes. I also tried: > > $sql='insert into $table set Name = '.$_POST["elementName"]; > or > $sql="insert into $table set Name = ".$_POST['elementName']; > > and several other variations. > > Can anyone give me some pointers to inserting $_POST[] statements inside > of query statements? I am sure there must be a way but I have spent a > lot of time on this and am really stumped here. Thanks for any help. > > -Adam Reiswig > > PS if anything here is not clear to you, please let me know and I'll > clarify as I can. Thanks again. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php