Question

  /* DATABASE INIT */

ret = sqlite3_open_v2(dbfile, &DB, SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE, NULL);

if (SQLITE_OK != ret) {
    printf("Could not open database.\n");
    exit(1);
}

const char* zSql = "INSERT INTO abc VALUES (?)";
ret = sqlite3_prepare_v2(sites[DB, zSql, strlen(zSql), &s, NULL);

if (SQLITE_OK != ret) {
    printf("Could not compile statement '%s', got %d.\n", zSql, ret);
    exit(1);
}

Well, there you go. What’s wrong? sqlite3_prepare_v2 always fails.

Update:
I tried the suggestions so far, but no cigar.
I created the simplest case I could think of, with a schema:

CREATE TABLE abc(a INTEGER);

And the C code as above, still does not work, gets ‘Could not compile statement’
got return code 26 which apparently means SQLITE_NOTADB. So it seems my database file is not… a database file. Strange, I will have to look into this.

The sqlite CLI accepts the file and can show the schema if I use the “.dump” command.

I changed the database file name from “data.db” to “data.sqlite”. Now I get a return code of 1, SQLITE_ERROR, instead.

Update:
I was accessing the wrong file, AKA user error.
Accepting one of the answers that pointed out a syntax error in my unedited question.

Answer 1

I think you should try

const char* zSql = 
    "INSERT INTO abc (moderation_status, phonenumber, email) VALUES(?,?,?)";

assuming moderation_status phonenumber and email are the names of the fields in your table.

or:

const char* zSql = "INSERT INTO abc VALUES(?,?,?)";

The ? is the placeholder for where the arguments will be inserted.