Question

I have a while loop in PHP which assigned values to the follow variables:

$ptitle $summary $author $playlistfeedurl

I have checked using echos that the rest of code is robust and before they are queried into the mySQL database (local host, MAMP) they are definitely the correct values\;

mysql_query("INSERT INTO youtube_playlists (title,summary,author,playlistfeedurl) VALUES ('$ptitle','$summary','$author','$playlistfeedurl')");

However the first and last row are not going into the database and it is a real head scratcher for me!

Any help much appreciated.

UPDATE: Thanks for your answers!

@Yusif Ali: Thanks for the answer, it hasn’t solved my issue but it will surely help. The output is: 111, so three of my results are inserted but the other two are not.

@Dutchie432: This worked a charm thank you so much! It is really bad luck these values were first and last: When I was looping 50 times I was only recieving 48 results in my table, so I reduced it to 5 results to see what would happen and these 2 results somewhere were 1st and 5th. I thought the fact they were first and last was significant, apparently not!

Answer 1

Make sure your variables don’t contain any apostrophes, and if they do, change the to doubles.

Just do this for each variable before construction the SQL statement:

$ptitle = str_replace("'", "''", $ptitle);