Question

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my Query?
I have two tables event and customer, I want to select customer id from customer table and insert it in the customer_id Column in the event table. this is only where the login id in the customers table is the same as the logged in user id

$insEvent_sql = "INSERT INTO event(customer_id, videography_package, event_type, event_shortdesc, event_vanue, event_start) 
VALUES(customer-id,'".$safe_videography_package."', '".$safe_event_type."', '".$safe_event_shortdesc."','".$safe_event_vanue."',  '".$event_date."') SELECT customer_id  FROM 'customer' WHERE login_id = ".$_SESSION['SESS_LOGIN_ID'].";";

Answer 1

You cannot INSERT a row followed by a SELECT. A work around is to add your row to the SELECT:

$insEvent_sql = "INSERT INTO event 
            (customer_id, 
             videography_package, 
             event_type, 
             event_shortdesc, 
             event_vanue, 
             event_start) 
SELECT 'customer-id'                        AS customer_id, 
       '" . $safe_videography_package . "'  AS videography_package, 
       '" . $safe_event_type . "'           AS event_type, 
       '" . $safe_event_shortdesc . "'      AS event_shortdesc, 
       '" . $safe_event_vanue . "'          AS event_venu, 
       '" . $event_date . "'        AS event_start 
UNION ALL 
SELECT customer_id, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL
FROM   customer 
WHERE  login_id = " . $_SESSION['SESS_LOGIN_ID']; 

Using sample data:

$safe_videography_package = 'package1';
$safe_event_type = 'type1';
$safe_event_shortdesc = 'short description';
$safe_event_vanue = 'some venu';
$event_date = '2012-05-05';
$_SESSION['SESS_LOGIN_ID'] = 1;

Will produce:

INSERT INTO event 
            (customer_id, 
             videography_package, 
             event_type, 
             event_shortdesc, 
             event_vanue, 
             event_start) 
SELECT 'customer-id'       AS customer_id, 
       'package1'          AS videography_package, 
       'type1'             AS event_type, 
       'short description' AS event_shortdesc, 
       'some venu'         AS event_venu, 
       '2012-05-05'        AS event_start 
UNION ALL 
SELECT customer_id, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL
FROM   customer 
WHERE  login_id = 1