Question

Doing a university course in web development and I’ve been sick all the time we went thru databases. I’ve read up on most stuff, like connect to mysql, select DB and that. But something I can’t figure out is how to add data in the columns of a table.

I’ve tried what i could find online but I haven’t found anything useful really… So I was wondering if anyone here could be so kind to show me how write stuff to a table with these columns: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/sqla.png/

I don’t need help to select DB etc, just how to write those data into the db. Or a link to a guide for dummies like myself… I’ve tried a lot of different ways with

mysql_query(INSERT INTO *** VALUES ****)

But I cannot get it to work..

Any help would be really appreciated, feeling totally lost.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

My guess is that song_id is related to some other table so you would need to have a valid song_id in your insert request, but something like this should work:

 INSERT INTO `your_table` VALUES(NULL,'Your Text',song_id,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);

Notice that the song_id should be replaced with a valid id if it’s related to another table:

 $song_id = 1;
 $text = "Sample text";
 mysql_query("INSERT INTO `your_table` VALUES(NULL,'$text',$song_id,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)");

You should also try checking the mysql documentation for this kind of questions.