Question

I need a little help with this, I am trying to insert some data into a MYSQL table which includes the now values for date & time for orders.

Code:

$query= "INSERT INTO ordertable
VALUES ('".$listauthor."','".$ordernumber.",'"NOW()"','"NOW()"')";

Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in C:\xampp\htdocs\createbasket.php on line 15

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You don’t want to encapsulate NOW() with quotes. You’d need to do:

$query= "INSERT INTO ordertable 
             VALUES ('".$listauthor."','".$ordernumber."',NOW(),NOW())";