Question

I can’t get my query to insert one of my vars while it is being appened. if i hard set it, it will insert.

   preg_match_all("/<\s*p[^>]*>([^<]*)<\s*\/\s*p\s*>/", $new_post, $matches);

$article = ' ';

foreach ($matches[0] as $media){
$article .= $media;

}

$query = "INSERT INTO blog_post (date,article,link) VALUES('$date','$article','$guid_clean')";
mysqli_query($dbc,$query);

Everything works, IE I can echo out the $article and if I hard set it and skip the foreach I can even insert $article. $date and $guid_clean work fine.

Answer 1

You have not escaped your input variables with mysql_real_escape_string(), and it is likely that an apostrophe or single-quote inside the article body is breaking and invalidating the SQL statement.

$article = mysql_real_escape_string($article);
// And if necessary if these came from user input...
$guid_clean = mysql_real_escape_string($guid_clean);
$date = mysql_real_escape_string($date);

$query = "INSERT INTO blog_post (date,article,link) VALUES('$date','$article','$guid_clean')";
mysqli_query($dbc,$query);