Question

It is my first time setting up databases in MySQL and using them so I would appreciate any help as my hours of searching online have not helped me with this error.

I basically have one tables in my DB.
Airport:
Title- 3 Char & PublicKey
AirportName- 100 Char & Not null

I have coded a webpage in php that should allow me to delete my entries depending on which one I select.

In short this is my php:

 $result = mysql_query("DELETE FROM airport WHERE Title=$Title")
 or die(mysql_error()); 

It gives me this error:

Unknown column 'ABC' in 'where clause'

If I run this in phpmyadmin:

DELETE FROM airport WHERE Title=ABC

It gives me this error:

Unknown column 'ABC' in 'where clause'

If I run this in phpmyadmin it works:

DELETE FROM airport WHERE Title="ABC"

But if I add quotes in my php code the page dies. Any pointers?

Answer 1

since title field of your db is varchar, better encode $title with single quote and use mysql_real_escape_string too for cleaning unsafe db chars.
like:

$result = mysql_query(sprintf("delete from airport where title = '%s'", mysql_real_escape_string($title));