On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:41, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> PHP: 4.0.4pl1
> MySQL: 3.23.36-1
>
> I have the following code fragment, which uses the same connection
> parameters elsewhere to *successfully* to retrieve data from a
> database, so this doesn't appear to be a permissions problem with
> MySQL.
>
> However, nothing happens with inserts; no rows are added at all. All I
> get is a message form mysql_error() saying "Query was empty."
>
> Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?
>
> $user_idx = 1;
> $objective = 1;
> $question = 'Foo';
> $question_type = 'singular';
>
> $connection_id = mysql_connect ('192.168.1.1', 'php', 'password')
> or die ("No connection.\n");
>
> $sql = "INSERT INTO question VALUES (NULL, $user_idx, $objective,
> '$question', '$question_type', NULL, NULL)";
>
> $result = mysql_db_query('item_db', $sql_query, $connection_id);
>
> echo "<pre>";
> echo "\nDebugging output:\n";
> echo "\tSQL: $sql\n";
> echo "\tError: ", mysql_error(), "\n";
> echo "\tLast insert ID: ", mysql_insert_id(), "\n";
> echo "\tResult: $result\n";
> echo "</pre>\n";
Your INSERT statement is contained in the variable $sql but you are using
$sql_query in the mysl_db_query function?
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