Question

I created a simple mysql query to run when an user uploads a file. The query is meant to created a new row in the table dress and attach the name of the file to a column titled file_name. However, phpmyadmin tells me that when I run the query in the SQL section I am unable to do so because it gives me this error.

#1054 - Unknown column 'name' in 'field list'

Here is my query code. I suspect it is an syntax error.

INSERT INTO `dress` (file_name) VALUES (name)

Also, here is my info on my database

dress   CREATE TABLE `dress` (
 `primary_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `file_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 `match_1` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`primary_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

Answer 1

If you’re trying to insert the value ‘name’, you should put it in quotes – like this:

INSERT INTO `dress` (file_name) VALUES ('name')