Question

Im wondering how i could add a success or fail message to return at the end of this function

function InsertIntoDB($field1, $field2, $field3, $field4, $field5, $field6, $field7, $field8, $field9){
$sql = "INSERT INTO `caches` ( `url` ,  `username` ,  `password` ,  `cachename` ,  `lat` ,  `long` ,  `message` ,  `notes` ,  `tags`  ) VALUES(  '{$field1}' ,  '{$field2}' ,  '{$field3}' ,  '{$field4}' ,  '{$field5}' ,  '{$field6}' ,  '{$field7}' ,  '{$field8}' ,  '{$field9}'  ) "; 
mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
}

Id like it to return “OK” on success, and “FAIL” on failure.

Answer 1

What do you define to be success?

If you define mysql_query() returning true to be a success, then the following will work:

function InsertIntoDB($field1, $field2, $field3, $field4, $field5, $field6, $field7, $field8, $field9){
     $sql = "INSERT INTO `caches` ( `url` ,  `username` ,  `password` ,  `cachename` ,  `lat` ,  `long` ,  `message` ,  `notes` ,  `tags`  ) VALUES(  '{$field1}' ,  '{$field2}' ,  '{$field3}' ,  '{$field4}' ,  '{$field5}' ,  '{$field6}' ,  '{$field7}' ,  '{$field8}' ,  '{$field9}'  ) "; 
     return mysql_query($sql) ? "OK" : "FAIL";
}