Question

 <?php
$host="localhost"; // Host name 
$username="root"; // Mysql username 
$password=""; // Mysql password 
$db_name="ureviewdu"; // Database name 
$tbl_name="Student"; // Table name

// Connect to server and select databse.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect"); 
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

/* Obliterate bad input */
$secUser = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['reguser']);
$badpasses = $_POST['regpass'];
$salt = '~Z`!@#$%I^&*()_-+Q=}]{[\|"><';
$secPass = md5($badpasses.$salt);

$sql = "INSERT INTO Student (uname, pass, fname, lname, email, currGrade)                VALUES('$secUser','$secPass','$_POST[regfirst]','$_POST[reglast]','$_POST[regemail]','$_POST[regclassrank]')";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
if ($result) {
    echo "Thanks for signing up!";
} else {
    echo "Failed.";
}


?>

HTML

<form action="inc/register/register.php" method="post" id="userRegistration">
        <div class="cen"><h5>User Credentials</h5></div>
        <div class="field required">
        Username: <input type="text" name="reguser" tabindex="1" /><br />
        </div>
        <div class="field required">
        Password: <input type="password" name="regpass" tabindex="2" /><br />
        </div>

        <div class="cen"><h5>User Details</h5></div>
        <div class="field required">
        First Name:<input type="text" name="regfirst"  tabindex="3" /><br />
        </div>
        <div class="field required">
        Last Name:<input type="text" name="reglast"  tabindex="4" /><br />
        </div>
        <div class="field required">
        Email:<input type="text" name="regemail" tabindex="5" /><br />
        </div>
        <div class="field required">
        Current Class:<select name="regclassrank"  tabindex="6">
        <option disabled="disabled">Select Class</option>
            <option value="1">Freshman</option>
            <option value="2">Sophomore</option>
            <option value="3">Pre-Junior</option>
            <option value="4">Junior</option>
            <option value="5">Senior</option>
        <option></option>
        </select>
        </div>
        <br />
        <div class="cen"><input type="submit" name="submitUser" /></div>
</form>

Does anyone see anything wrong with this? It submits fine, but then nothing is INSERTED into the database….

Answer 1

You must execute the query with mysql_query.

$sql = "INSERT INTO Student (uname, pass, fname, lname, email, currGrade)                VALUES('$secUser','$secPass','$_POST[regfirst]','$_POST[reglast]','$_POST[regemail]','$_POST[regclassrank]')";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
if ($result) {
    echo "Thanks for signing up!";
} else {
    echo "There was an error processing your request. Please try again.";
}