Surely this will fail because $login has not been defined, by use of
something like
$login = $_REQUEST['login'];
I tried the naked code as given, and (as expected) got an error -
undefined variable - $login
I was under the impression that had to be done for all 'incoming', if it
was to be used for anything.....
Terry Riley
----------Original Message---------
>
> $query="INSERT INTO login VALUES ('$login')";
>
> have fun
>
>
> Bill Pilgrim wrote:
> > My System:
> > Windows 98
> > Apache 1.3.27
> > PHP 4
> > mysql
> >
> > Hello all, I am a PHP beginner and was wondering if I could get some
> > help from some of the more experienced on this list. I have been
> trying to use an html form (with textboxes, radio buttons, and
> textareas) to input data into a mysql database. I am able to connect
> fully with the database and am able to create tables in it, but when I
> try to input information into the tables nothing happens. ever... I
> don't really know what to do from here, but I assume that a
> configuration is not set properly between mysql, apache, windows, or
> php. I really don't know what it could be. My code is here and I have
> tried to simplify the form in order to get it working, so here is my
> barebones code that hopefully has some errors:
> > HTML:
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>Simplify</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <form action="addform.php" method="post">
> > Login: <input type="text" name="login">
> > <input type="submit">
> > </form>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > PHP file called "addform.php":
> >
> > <?
> >
> > $user="chris";
> > $database="test";
> > mysql_connect(localhost,$user);
> > @mysql_select_db($database) or die("unable to select database");
> > $query="INSERT INTO login VALUES ("'$login')";
> > mysql_query($query);
> > mysql_close();
> > ?>
> >
> > Login is the name of the table on the database named test.
> >
> > I stopped using a password because it wouldn't let anything work even
> > table creation when I tried to use a password. Any help that anyone
> could give would be greatly appreciated; there is probably some
> grievious error in this script. Thanks, Chris
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