Try the following,

INSERT INTO questions(user_id,objective,question,question_type)
VALUES('$uawr_idx', '$objective', '$question', '$question_type')

Define the rows you want to insert into.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: [PHP] INSERT problem with MySQL/PHP


> 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";
>
> --
> Todd A. Jacobs
> CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

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