mikafi

I have troubles inserting varchar to mySQL table containing space (" "). Whenever the string has space in it, the inserting fails and nothing is added to the table. My php code looks like this in terms of inserting values: $query="INSERT INTO table VALUES ('null', '$name', '$score', '$description', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)"; It does work when there are no spaces in either name or description which are VARCHARs. Is it normal that this fails when the strings contain a space?