Question

i might be doing some idiot mistake, but i could not figure that out. i have some values coming from html and wanna insert into mysql db. problem is, the very same query does not work in regular php file (that includes other queries), but when i try on an independent php file, it does. here is a sample of the code:

    $sql15="insert into body 
            (Article_ID, Article_Title) 
            values
            ('$article_id', '".$_POST['Article_Title']."') ";
    mysql_query($sql15);

as i mentioned, the very same code works when i just copy this snippet to a new php file, and it works smoothly.. as you see, there are 20+ insert with the same php, because there are 25+ tables, but data is not much. first 14 query and following 7 queries do work by the way.
do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

There are some things to check and do.

• Sanitize user input:
  "('$article_id', '".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['Article_Title'])."')";
  You might also want to check if the value is what you expect.

• Is your $article_id correct for column Article_ID?

• Are your table and column names correct?

• Check for errors:

$res = mysql_query($sql15);
if (!$res)
  echo mysql_errno($link) . ": " . mysql_error($link);

• Show us you complete query:
  echo $sql15;