Thanks! :-)
Man, what a great list! You guys kick a$$
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyndig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Clayton Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Help INSERTing to MySQL
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Clayton Dukes wrote:
> > Well sheesh,
> > If I knew I could get answers that easy here, I woudn't have worked on
this
> > for 20 hours :-)
> >
> > THANKS!!!!
> >
> > btw, field one is an ID field set to auto increment, how can I insert
that
> > if I don't know what it is?
> >
> You don't need to insert it. auto_increment will automatically
> increment every time you insert a record. In fact, you _really_
> don't want to ever set this field, as you would be modifying your
> primary key ( unless your modifying them all )
>
> Note: You don't have to INSERT all fields mentioned below. If
> you have a 'default' value set..then it will default to that value,
> or in auto_increment case...it will automatically increment from
> the last record it reads.
>
> >
> > Here are the fields:
> > CREATE TABLE documents (
> > id bigint(20) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment,
> > docid varchar(20),
> > category enum('Language Arts','Sciences','Humanities','Arts','Special
> > Subjects','Other'),
> > subcategory enum('Physics','Biology','Chemistry','Math','Computers and
> >
Internet','History','Economics','Geography','Law','Religion','Philosophy','B
> > lack Awareness','Countries','Drugs','Education','Environmental
> > Awareness','Politics','Health','Sex and Sexuality','Female
> > Awareness','Art','Movies or TV','Music','Sports','Charles
> > Dickens','Shakespeare','Biography','Fictional
> > Stories','Astronomy','Mythology'),
> > date varchar(10),
> > subject varchar(200),
> > title varchar(200),
> > author varchar(200),
> > email varchar(50),
> > language
enum('English','Danish','Dutch','Finnish','German','Spanish'),
> > grade int(3),
> > level enum('High School','College','Other'),
> > city varchar(15),
> > state varchar(15),
> > county varchar(15),
> > school varchar(45),
> > zip smallint(5),
> > authorcomments varchar(200),
> > teachercomments varchar(200),
> > approve enum('Y','N'),
> > docdata text,
> > PRIMARY KEY (id),
> > UNIQUE id (id)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Clayton Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Help INSERTing to MySQL
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > Hello, This is my first attempt, so I'm prolly doing something
stupid,
> > > > but can someone tell me why this doesn't work? All it returns is
> > > > "Unable to INSERT to database"
> > >
> > > Change : or die("Unable to INSERT to database");
> > > To : or die(mysql_error());
> > >
> > > And see what it tells you. Odds are there's a field not being
accounted
> > > for. When not designating columns (just values) it's important to
make
> > > sure all columns are accounted for. See :
> > >
> > > http://www.sqlcourse.com/
> > >
> > > It'll provide some basic SQL help. It's recommended to write out
columns
> > > and values (easier to make sense of).
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Philip Olson
> > > http://www.cornado.com/
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---BEGIN---
> > > > <?
> > > > $time = time();
> > > > $rand = Random_Password(5);
> > > > $docid = $time . $rand;
> > > >
> > > > if (isset($email) && isset($docid)) {
> > > > mysql_connect("$HOSTNAME", "$DB_USER", "$DB_PASS");
> > > >
> > > > $query = "INSERT INTO documents VALUES ('$docid', '$category',
> > > > '$subcategory', '$date', '$subject', '$title', '$author', '$email',
> > > > '$language', '$gr ade', '$level', '$city', '$state', '$county',
> > > > '$zip', '$authors_comments', '$teachers_comments', 'N',
'$docdata')";
> > > >
> > > > $result = mysql_db_query("$DATABASE", $query) or die("Unable to
> > > > INSERT to database");
> > > >
> > > > if ($result) {
> > > > echo "<p>$docid was added to the database</p>";
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > > ?>
> > >
> > >
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