Question

Is there something wrong with this code? I’m running MYSQL 5 I keep getting this error:

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 ‘desc BLOB, review BLOB, url BLOB )’

Here’s my query:

mysql_query("CREATE TABLE videos(
                id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
                PRIMARY KEY(id),
                title VARCHAR(50),
                desc BLOB,
                review BLOB,
                url BLOB
            )
") or die(mysql_error());

It looks alright to me. At first I thought it was the “BLOB” datatype but then I tried “TEXT” and it still messed up so I’m not quite sure.

Answer 1

desc is a reserved keyword, you need to escape it:

mysql_query("CREATE TABLE videos(
                id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
                PRIMARY KEY(id),
                title VARCHAR(50),
                `desc` BLOB,
                review BLOB,
                url BLOB
            )
")or die(mysql_error());

For the full list of reserved keywords, see 8.3. Reserved Words