Sir, kindly try these lines: 1) $query="INSERT INTO login VALUES ("$_POST('login')")"; 2) $query="INSERT INTO login VALUES ("$_REQUEST('login')")";
or check in your php.ini file the line register_globals = on/off should be "on" if you wish to use $query="INSERT INTO login VALUES ("$login")"; Note: I've observed an extra double quote in the line above in your script. I hope this can help. Rodel D. Bautista > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Pilgrim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP help > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php