Question

I will do a sanitize and escape as soon as I get this to work properly.

Database connection and selection are verified working with a select query at this point. Weird thing is, if I take this insert query and run it straight from a mysql command prompt, it inserts just fine.

subscibers table has 3 columns not allowing NULL in either column:

 Server version:         5.5.11 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
    +--------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
    | Field  | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
    +--------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
    | id     | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
    | email  | varchar(45) | NO   | UNI | NULL    |                |
    | active | tinyint(4)  | YES  |     | 1       |                |
    +--------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
    3 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Code in php:

$query = "INSERT INTO `subscribers`(`id`,`email`) VALUES(default,'[e-mail]')";
print $query;    
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

printed query result for insert:

INSERT INTO `subscribers`(`id`,`email`) VALUES(default,'[e-mail]')

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ”[e-mail]’)’ at line 1

EDIT: I am sure that there is no other email in there identical for uniqueness. Looking at the table list of emails, and none with that garbage in there.

Answer 1

don’t include id in your insert statement:

INSERT INTO `subscribers` (`email`) VALUES ('[e-mail]');

OR set id to NULL

INSERT INTO `subscribers` (`id`,`email`) VALUES (NULL,'[e-mail]');