You have an error in your SQL syntax.......

[kurtis]

yes its the annoying "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1" error!
im follwing the user system tutorial but made my own registration page becuase i couldnt get the other one working so i made my own which seems to promise more but i still get this error and i dont know why  ???
anyone got any ideas?
thanks

[shoz]

what's the query that's giving this error? Post the relevant code snippet as well.

[kurtis]

db.php:
[code]
<?
$link = mysql_CONNECT(localhost,root);
mysql_select_db(dijeridooo);
if (!$link) {
die('could not connect:' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'connection succesful';
?>
[/code]
(i added the echo just to make sure it was connecting)

registration file:
[code]
$query = mysql_query('INSERT INTO users VALUES(id, username, encryptpass, password, name, prov, style, hist, infl, open, webs, email, photo, signupdate') or die (mysql_error());
[/code]

[fenway]

Yeah, that makes no sense... those aren't values -- string literals -- they're field names.  And where is the column list?  I'm confused, and so is the parser.

[kurtis]

ye i thought that :S i rote it originally i had a few errors so i asked my mate for advice(hes been doing it longer than me) n he just messed round with the connection till it came up with this error and the he didnt know what to do :S this is the one i had before:
[code]
$query = mysql_query('INSERT INTO users VALUES(id=$id, username=$username, encryptpass=$encryptpass, password=$password, name=$name, prov=$prov, style=$style, hist=$hist, infl=$infl, open=$open, webs=$webs, email=$email, signupdate=now()') or die (mysql_error());
[/code]

[fenway]

While you can use a variation of the UPDATE syntax for inserts, I prefer to use the more conventional approach:

[code]
$query = mysql_query('INSERT INTO users (id, username, encryptpass, password, name, prov, style, hist, infl, open, webs, email, photo, signupdate ) VALUES('$id', '$username', '$encryptpass', '$password', '$name', '$prov', '$style', '$hist', '$infl', '$open', '$webs', '$email', now()) or die (mysql_error());
[/code]

[kurtis]

thanks for your help :D but now it says unexpected t_string :( its not my lucky day! lol

[king arthur]

What Fenway meant of course was

[code]
$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (id, username, encryptpass, password, name, prov, style, hist, infl, open, webs, email, photo, signupdate ) VALUES('$id', '$username', '$encryptpass', '$password', '$name', '$prov', '$style', '$hist', '$infl', '$open', '$webs', '$email', now()") or die (mysql_error());
[/code]

[fenway]

But of course... my bad.