Question

My IDE is expecting a semicolon but I’m not sure where!
It is this line it is highlighting:

,'$other_writ'  WHERE id="$_SESSION[user_id]")

This is the code above:

 if (!empty($_POST['doLanguage']) && $_POST['doLanguage'] == 'Submit') 
{ 
  session_start();
  foreach($_POST as $key => $value)
  $id = "$_SESSION[user_id]";

  if(empty($err)) {
  for($i = 0; $i < count($_POST["other"]); $i++);
{
$native = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['native'][$i]);
$other = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other'][$i]);
$other_list = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other_list'][$i]);
$other_read = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other_read'][$i]);
$other_spokint = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other_spokint'][$i]);
$other_spokprod = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other_spokprod'][$i]);
$other_writ = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['other_writ'][$i]);
$sql_insert = "INSERT into `language`
(`native`,`other`,`other_list`,`other_read`, `other_spokint`
,`other_spokprod`,`other_writ`  )
VALUES
('$native','$other','$other_list','$other_read','$other_spokint','$other_spokprod'
,'$other_writ'  WHERE id="$_SESSION[user_id]")";

mysql_query($sql_insert,$link) or die("Insertion Failed:" . mysql_error());     
}

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

You open a string here:

"INSERT into `language` ...

and it’s being closed here:

... WHERE id="

PHP expects a semicolon after this. You could fix it by replacing the double quotes with single quotes (which are the SQL standard), but: why are you using a WHERE clause with INSERT anyway? You don’t need that.

Just finish your string like this:

... ,'$other_writ')";