Question

I was wondering if anyone had input as to why this statement isn’t inserting into my MySQL database. It’s not showing any errors and when I enter the SQL statement in manually it inserts the info.

<?php

$host="mysql16.000webhost.com";
$user_name="a1611480_akaash";
$pwd="*****";
$database_name="a1611480_akaash";
$db=mysql_connect($host, $user_name, $pwd);

$sql = "INSERT INTO mydata VALUES ('dude1', 'dude2', 'dude3', 'dude4', 'dude5')";

mysql_query($sql);

?>

Answer 1

This is due to the fact that mysql does not know which database to use for this SQL statement.
Include mysql_select_db.

mysql_select_db($database_name);

To get any type of error in php (except fatals) enclose your code with a try block

try{
    // db code
}catch(Exception $e){
    // something is wrong
    echo "Oh God! I got this ". $e->getMessage();
}