LOUDMOUTH Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Please Help I have a guestbook I am trying to setup and am having a problem getting the info to insert into the DB The info calls fine when I manually insert the info into the DB but only calls the time "ID" and "DATE" when I try to enter a guestbook submission on the site. here is what I have DB CREATE TABLE `guestbook` ( `id` int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` varchar(65) NOT NULL default '', `email` varchar(65) NOT NULL default '', `comment` longtext NOT NULL, `datetime` varchar(65) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ; guestbook.php <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong>Test Sign Guestbook </strong></td> </tr> </table> <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="addguestbook.php"> <td> <table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="117">Name</td> <td width="14">:</td> <td width="357"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="40" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Email</td> <td>:</td> <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="40" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Comment</td> <td valign="top">:</td> <td><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="3" id="comment"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> </form> </tr> </table> <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong><a href="viewguestbook.php">View Guestbook</a> </strong></td> </tr> </table> addguestbook.php <?php $host="localhost"; // Host name $username=""; // Mysql username $password=""; // Mysql password $db_name="test"; // Database name $tbl_name="guestbook"; // Table name // Connect to server and select database. mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect server "); mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB"); $datetime=date("y-m-d h:i:s"); //date time $sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(name, email, comment, datetime)VALUES('$name', '$email', '$comment', '$datetime')"; $result=mysql_query($sql); //check if query successful if($result){ echo "Successful"; echo "<BR>"; echo "<a href='viewguestbook.php'>View guestbook</a>"; // link to view guestbook page } else { echo "ERROR"; } mysql_close(); ?> <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong>View Guestbook | <a href="guestbook.php">Sign Guestbook</a> </strong></td> </tr> </table> <br> <?php $host="localhost"; // Host name $username=""; // Mysql username $password=""; // Mysql password $db_name="test"; // Database name $tbl_name="guestbook"; // Table name // Connect to server and select database. mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect server "); mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB"); $sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ ?> <table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td><table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td>ID</td> <td>:</td> <td><? echo $rows['id']; ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="117">Name</td> <td width="14">:</td> <td width="357"><? echo $rows['name']; ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Email</td> <td>:</td> <td><? echo $rows['email']; ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Comment</td> <td valign="top">:</td> <td><? echo $rows['comment']; ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Date/Time </td> <td valign="top">:</td> <td><? echo $rows['datetime']; ?></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <BR> <? } mysql_close(); //close database ?> lights joint* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOUDMOUTH Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 Here is the site so you can see live. http://pledgeresistance.com/guestbook.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Try replacing.... echo "ERROR"; with.... echo mysql_error(); so you at least get to do some debugging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruzzas Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 <?php $host="localhost"; // Host name $username=""; // Mysql username $password=""; // Mysql password $db_name="test"; // Database name $tbl_name="guestbook"; // Table name // Connect to server and select database. mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect server "); mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB"); $datetime=date("y-m-d h:i:s"); //date time $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $comment = $_POST['comment']; $sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(name, email, comment, datetime)VALUES('$name', '$email', '$comment', '$datetime')"; $result=mysql_query($sql); //check if query successful if($result){ echo "Successful"; echo "<BR>"; echo "<a href='viewguestbook.php'>View guestbook</a>"; // link to view guestbook page } else { echo "ERROR"; } mysql_close(); ?> Try that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOUDMOUTH Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 Thanks Ruzzas, wokrs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruzzas Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Your welcome mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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