CC Zona [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Thomas Edison Jr.") wrote:
> 
> > I'm using the following code to insert date into my
> > mySQL table named "Booking". I've created variables
> > that store the date with dashes "-" seperating them. 
> > But it's not working. It's giving me an error on the
> > $SQl line. 
> > 
> > following is the code :
> > 
> > <?php
> >     $db = mysql_connect("localhost","root");
> >     mysql_select_db("motorola",$db);
> >     $realsdate="$syear"."-"."$smonth"."-"."$stdate";
> >     $realedate="$eyear"."-"."$emonth"."-"."$endate";
> >     $realstime="$shh".":"."$smm"."-"."$sttime";
> >     $realetime="$ehh".":"."$emm"."-"."$entime";
> >     $sql = INSERT INTO booking
> > (room,sdate,edate,stime,etime,purpose,reserved) VALUES
> > ('$rooms','$realsdate','$realedate','$realstime','$realetime','$purpose','$res
> > ');
> >     $result = mysql_query($sql) or Die ("An unexpected
> > error occured. Please go back and book again.");
> > ?>
> 
> Your value for the variable "sql" isn't enclosed in quotes.  BTW, tracking 
> down problems with a sql query gets easier when you give yourself a more 
> informative die() message, such as:
> 
> or die ("MySQL says: " . mysql_errorno() . " " . mysql_error() . "\nPHP 
                                 ^^^^^^^^^

Just a technicality, but I think I remember this to be
mysql_errno().  But CC is right - in your "die", give yourself
as much info about the error as possible.

-- 
Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com

> says: $errormsg");
> 
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