Question

I have the following table:

ID: bigint autoinc
NAME: varchar(255)
DESCRIPTION: text
ENTRYDATE: date

I am trying to insert a row into the table. It executes without error but nothing gets inserted in database.

try {
    $query = "INSERT INTO mytable (NAME, DESCRIPTION, ENTRYDATE) VALUES(?,?,?)";
    $stmt = $conn->prepare($query);
    $name= 'something';
    $desc = 'something';
    $curdate = "CURDATE()";
    $stmt->bind_param("sss", $name, $desc, $curdate);
    $stmt->execute();
    $stmt->close();
    $conn->close();
    //redirect to success page
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    print $e;
}

It runs fine and redirects to success page but nothing can be found inside the table. Why isn’t it working?

Answer 1

What about replacing DESCTIPTION with DESCRIPTION inside the $query?

Edit

Just out of curiosity, I created a table called mytable and copy-pasted your code into a PHP script.

Here everything worked fine and rows got inserted, except that the binded parameter CURDATE() did not execute properly and the ENTRYDATE cell was assigned 0000-00-00.

Are you sure you are monitoring the same database and table your script is supposedly inserting to?

What happens when going with error_reporting(E_ALL); ?

Have you verified that the script actually completes the insertion?

The following appears to be working as expected:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

try {
    $query = "INSERT INTO mytable (NAME, DESCRIPTION, ENTRYDATE) VALUES (?, ?, CURDATE())";
    $stmt = $conn->prepare($query);
    $name= 'something';
    $desc = 'something';
    $stmt->bind_param("ss", $name, $desc);
    $stmt->execute();

     if ($conn->affected_rows < 1) {
        throw new Exception('Nothing was inserted!');
     }

    $stmt->close();
    $conn->close();
    //redirect to success page
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    print $e->getMessage();
}