Question

So my problem is that for some reason, the items do not appear to be going into my database:

$comment = $_POST['comment'];

if (isset($_POST['username']) or $_POST['username'] != '') {
    $username = $_POST['username'];
mysql_query('Insert into comments VALUES (comment="'.$comment.'", username="'. $username.'")');
echo $username;
}
else {
    mysql_query('insert into comments values (comment="'.$comment.'")');
}

My table is named comments, one field is named comment, and one field is named username.

What’s wrong with my code?

Answer 1

The SQL insert format is incorrect :-

insert into comments
(list of columns...)  values ( list of values ...);

Or

insert into comments
set column1=value1, column2=value2 ...;

If you do a var_dump(mysql_error());,
you should able to see more verbose details on the error

Off-topic :-

You insert statement does not cater for sql injection,
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/php/info