Question

For some reason this just isn’t inserting into my database…

HTML

<form name="testimonials_form" method="post" action="insert/">
  Name
  <input type="text" name="from" maxlegnth="100" />
  Location
  <input type="text" name="where" maxlegnth="100" />
  Text Snippet
  <input type="text" name="text" maxlegnth="255">
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Continue" />
</form>

PHP

<?php

$from = $_POST['from'];
$where = $_POST['where'];
$text = $_POST['text'];

if (!$from || !$where || !$text) {
  $error = "You have missed some fields.";
  $solution = "Please go back and <a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1)\" target=\"_self\">try again</a>.";
} else {
  $data_array = array(':from' => $from, ':where' => $where, ':text' => $text);

  $insert_testimonial = $connect->prepare("
  INSERT INTO `testimonials` (
      text, from, where
  ) VALUES (
      :text, :from, :where
  )
  ");

  $insert_testimonial->execute($data_array);

  $amount = $insert_testimonial->rowCount();

  if ($amount < 1) {
    $error = "Something went wrong.";
    $solution = "Please go back and <a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1)\" target=\"_self\">try again</a>.";
  } else {
    header ("Location: ../");
  }
}

?>

All I keep getting back is my custom error “Something went wrong.” so there’s no 500 error (internal server error) and if I echo $from, $where and $text it displays what I typed in the form, I’ve re-written it about 5 times in case I wrote it wrong or something but still no luck. I know there can’t be a symbol missing or in the wrong place since it would return a 500 error.

Does anyone have any clue as to what’s up with it? I’ve written codes like this countless times but this just doesn’t seem to be working, so I must be missing something.

Answer 1

from, where

in your query need to be

`from`, `where`

as from and where are a reserved words in MySQL:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html

Those are backticks, by the way. IMO, you’d be better off not using those words as column names, but if you do, you most often need to use backticks.