Question

I’m brand new to PHP/MYSql and I’m trying to build a form that submits to MYSql. Here’s the form code:

    <form action="insert.php" method="post">
    First Name: <input type="text" name="first"><br>
    Last Name: <input type="text" name="last"><br>
    Phone: <input type="text" name="phone"><br>

    <input type="Submit">
    </form>

Here’s the insert.php:

<?php 
include "db-connect.php";

$first = $_POST['first'];
$last = $_POST['last'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];

$query = "INSERT INTO users VALUES ('', '$first', '$last', '$phone')";
$result= mysql_query($query);

if($result) {
    echo "Data entered Successfully";
} else {
    echo "You suck at coding";
}

mysql_close();

?>

Again I’m really new, so if you could explain it to me like I’m 5 that’d be great.

EDIT: I built the table with the myphpadmin gui.

The fields are:

id: INT, Primary, auto-increment
first: varchar (50)
last: varchar (50)
phone: varchar (25)

EDIT2: Following Esailija’s advice I added the mysql_error() function. Here’s the response: “Incorrect integer value: ” for column ‘id’ at row 1″

Answer 1

Try

$query = "INSERT INTO users (first, last, phone) VALUES ('$first', '$last', '$phone')";

…where first, last, and phone are the actual names of the fields in your table.

And +1 for replacing echo “You suck at coding” with echo mysql_error(). 🙂