Question

I am attempting a registration form that saves the data into a sql db. I’m not doing form validation just yet as what is most troubling me is getting this stuff onto sql. I’d appreciate any advice!!

I have a form.php file that should be doing the hard work. When I submit my form, at this point, I get a blank screen and nothing loads into the database.

<?php
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$cell = $_POST['cell'];
$experience = $_POST['experience'];
$ip = $_POST['ip'];

$password = md5($_POST['password']);

$connection = msql_connect(localhost, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
$db = mysql_select_db(registration,$connection);    

mysql_query("INSERT INTO userTable (fname,lname,password,email,cell,experience,ip) VALUES ('$fname', '$lname', '$password', '$email', '$cell', '$experience', '$ip')")
    or die (mysql_error());

echo "Thank you for your registration";


?>

And I have an html file that contains this:

            <form method = "post" action = "form.php">
            <h2>User Information</h2>

            <div><label>First Name:</label>
                <input type = "text" name = "fname"></div>
            <div><label>Last Name:</label>
                <input type = "text" name = "lname"></div>
            <div><label>Password:</label>
                <input type = "password" name = "password"></div>
            <div><label>Email:</label>
                <input type="text" name="email"></div>
            <div><label>Cellphone:</label>
                <input type="text" name="cell"></div>
                <input type="hidden" name="ip" value='<?php echo $IP ?>'/>
            <h2>What Is Your Experience Mountain Biking?</h2>
            <p><input type="radio" name="experience" value="n00b"
                checked>n00b
                <input type="radio" name="experience" value="intermediate">Intermediate
                <input type="radio" name="experience" value="extreme">Extreme                   
                </p>
            <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register"></p>
        </form>

Finally, I have a sql database (I’m running xampp locally) called “registration”
The table I’ve created is called “userTable” and it contains 8 fields including ID (auto incrementing) and the 7 other values I’ve included up top. Any idea what the heck I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

Solved my own problem


<?php
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$cell = $_POST['cell'];
$experience = $_POST['experience'];
$ip = $_POST['ip'];

$fname = mysql_real_escape_string($fname);
$lname = mysql_real_escape_string($lname);
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($email);
$password = md5($_POST['password']);

$servername="localhost";
$username="user";
$conn=  mysql_connect($servername,$username, password)or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("registration",$conn);
$sql="insert into userTable (fname,lname,password,email,cell,experience,ip) VALUES ('$fname', '$lname', '$password', '$email', '$cell', '$experience', '$ip')";

$result=mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());          
print "<h1>you have registered sucessfully</h1>";


echo "Thank you for your registration to the ";

mysql_close($connection);

?>