Question

original post:

My script is not working (it’s not recording the data). It was working before I added the mysql_real_escape_string, so I’m wondering if maybe I have not implemented it correctly:

$array = json_decode($downstream,TRUE);
$name = $array["status"]["name"];
$title = $array["status"]["title"];
$table = "mrTable";
$insert = "INSERT INTO $table (name, title) VALUES ('".mysql_real_escape_string($name)."', '".mysql_real_escape_string($title)."')";

Does that implementation at INSERT look correct to you?

UPDATE:

Here is the entire code, hopefully this will help. It is still not working though. When the real_escape_string function is used, NONE of the data elements get recorded in the database. As soon as I remove the escape function, data is written fine (unless of course an apostrophe shows up).

Here we go:

//read contents of this file:

$json_data = file_get_contents('../list.txt');

//json to a php array

$array = json_decode($json_data,TRUE));

//store in mysql table

$table = "table1";
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($array["current"]["name"]);
$code = mysql_real_escape_string($array["current"]["code"]);

$insert="INSERT INTO $table (name, code) VALUES ('$name', '$code')";

$con = mysql_connect($db, $user, $pass);
if (!$con)
    {
    die ('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
    };

mysql_select_db($yup, $con);

mysql_query($insert) OR die(mysql_error());

mysql_close($con);

UPDATE 2

Fixed! You need to connect to the database before first mentioning mysql_real_escape_string. Everything is working now…no blank data.

Answer 1

You need to be connected to a database to use mysql_real_escape_string. You don’t seem to be. Make sure mysql_connect is over your line where you define $insert