Question

I am adding comments to a website and thought I would make a simple comments table as follows but it is not working. Must be a typo but I cannot find it despite going over and over it and copying it into a different file and so forth. Also for those familiar with comments are these an adequate number of fields?

$maketable = "CREATE TABLE comments(id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
 PRIMARY KEY(id),
 name VARCHAR(30),
 whenadded DATETIME,
 storyid INT,
 comment TEXT,
 show TINYINT(1),
 userid INT)";
mysql_query($maketable);

Answer 1

I think ‘show’ is a reserved word in mysql. Try ‘display’ or something else:

$maketable = "CREATE TABLE comments(id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
 PRIMARY KEY(id),
 name VARCHAR(30),
 whenadded DATETIME,
 storyid INT,
 comment TEXT,
 display TINYINT(1),
 userid INT)";
mysql_query($maketable);