Where is the error in this?

[Colourtheory 0]

I've tried everything I can think of, any idea what's wrong?

$sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES('$_POST[name]', '$_POST[desc]', '$id')";

Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc, maker) VALUES ('yo', 'yolo', '1')' at line 1

[Don E 125]

For VALUES, try:

($_POST['name'], $_POST['desc'], $id)

Edited December 23, 2012 by Don E

[Colourtheory 0]

Doesn't work either

[Don E 125]

What does the error message display? Same thing? Try:

$sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES('". $_POST['name'] . "', '" . $_POST['desc'] . "', $id)";

Edited December 23, 2012 by Don E

[Colourtheory 0]

It whites out the entire page and says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/u705429760/public_html/newdiscussion.php on line 23

[Don E 125]

Check my edited post above with revised query to try. See if that works.

[Colourtheory 0]

The second one turns out to be the exact same as the first error

[Colourtheory 0]

Maybe there is a problem with the PHP part..

[Don E 125]

I see. Post the section in the code where this query takes place.

[Colourtheory 0]

<?php session_start(); require_once 'db.php';if (!$con)  {  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());  }  mysql_select_db("u705429760_main", $con); $id = $_SESSION['user_id']; $sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES('$_POST[name]', '$_POST[desc]', $id)"; if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))  {  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());  }echo "Discussion started!"; mysql_close($con);?>

[Don E 125]

Everything looks alright. Are you sure you're not misspelling(not necessarilly misspelling, but thinking you mean desc but actually mean Desc for example) the column names in the query... for example... maybe you have Desc instead of desc for that column's name. Also not sure if it matters.. but try changing $_POST['desc'] to something else like $_POST['descrip'] in case MySQL is getting confused with desc as the column name and 'desc' in the $_POST. If you do that, don't forget to change the name attribute for desc input in the form to, for ie: <input type="text" name="descrip" />

Edited December 23, 2012 by Don E

[Colourtheory 0]

Let me check.. Also, a few variables have the same name could this be causing the problem?

[Colourtheory 0]

This is so consfusing.. the script came off of a w3 example. I just edited it.

[Don E 125]

Still getting an error after you edited it?

[Colourtheory 0]

Yeah, this is really upsetting because this is one of the main parts of the website, and something so small is ruining it.

[Colourtheory 0]

This is the new version

<?php include('themesys.php') ?> <br><Br><div class="bbox">  <center>  <?php session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['user_id'])){ $con = mysql_connect("mystuff","mystuff","mypw");if (!$con)  {  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());  }  mysql_select_db("mydb", $con); $id = $_SESSION['user_id']; $sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES($_POST['namevalue'],$_POST['descvalue'],'$id')"; if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))  {  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());  }echo "Discussion started!"; mysql_close($con); }else{header('Location: login.php');}?> </div></body>

Edited December 24, 2012 by Colourtheory

[Don E 125]

What exactly is the error display now?

[Colourtheory 0]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/u705429760/public_html/newdiscussion.php on line 35

[Don E 125]

Try putting curly braces around the values like the following: :

$sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES({$_POST['namevalue']},{$_POST['descvalue']},{$id})";

Edited December 24, 2012 by Don E

[niche 133]

Switch your array ref in the insert to to a non array variable.

[thescientist 231]

looks like your quotation marks are in the wrong place. check out this example.http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp

[Colourtheory 0]

I give up, it's just not working..

Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc, maker) VALUES (hi,hi,1)' at line 1

Sucks, I worked so hard on this website.

[Don E 125]

Don't give up. It can work. Post the code that gave you the error above. There's a solution to the problem. Always!

[justsomeguy 1,135]

"desc" is a reserved word in SQL, for using ORDER BY. If you're using reserved words as table or column identifiers then you need to quote them with backticks.

[xhtmlchamps1 2]

$sql="INSERT INTO discussions (name, desc, maker)VALUES('".$_POST[name]."', '".$_POST[desc]."', '$id')"; Try this code, will be better use to you