Second set of eyes? INSERT error

[elis]

I keep getting the following error:
[quote]Query send failedYou have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'by,additional,sentdate,subject) VALUES ('','24,'Envi','','Jalee' at line 1[/quote]

here's the code

[code]
$date = date('Y-m-d');
$send = "INSERT INTO report_user (id,ip,reported,rptmessage,by,additional,sentdate,subject) VALUES

('','$ip,'$_POST[reported]','$message','$userpenname','$add','$date','$sub')";
$sent = mysql_query($send) or die("Query send failed".mysql_error());[/code]


I'm not sure what the problem is, I've looked at it a few times and I must be missing something...

[Jocka]

it's always infront of where it says "near " and then gives that info. so i'm guessing this area:

rptmessage,

maybe its not rptmessage, maybe its misspelled. could be anything almost lol.

[tleisher]

Try this:

[code]
$date = date('Y-m-d');
$reported = $_POST["reported"];
$send = mysql_query("INSERT INTO report_user (id, ip, reported, rptmessage, by, additional, sentdate, subject) VALUES ('','$ip,'$reported','$message','$userpenname','$add','$date','$sub')") or die("Query send failed ".mysql_error());
[/code]

[elis]

I just tried that, I got the same error again.  :-[

[tleisher]

Found it:

Try this:


$date = date('Y-m-d');
$reported = $_POST["reported"];
$send = mysql_query("INSERT INTO report_user (id, ip, reported, rptmessage, by, additional, sentdate, subject) VALUES ('','$ip[b]'[/b],'$reported','$message','$userpenname','$add','$date','$sub')") or die("Query send failed ".mysql_error());

Forgot a single quote there :)

[elis]

Same error again :(
I guess I'll have to try again from scratch?

[tleisher]

Try taking the ID part out? If your ID is autoincremental, you dont have to have that in there, and it may cause an error if you try to alter it.

[roopurt18]

Instead of showing us the code that creates the query, try echoing the query itself.  It's often easier to spot errors when looking at the finished query, without all the extra php syntax.

[roopurt18]

Also, try entering the query through phpMyAdmin; you may have spelled one of your columns incorrectly and it'll catch it.

[printf]

there is nothing wrong with the query, it you COLUMN NAMING

by = reserved word!

I recommend you change that column name, or use backtic operators to enclose it `by`, but that's bad logic, because the MySQL road map states it's going to put more restrictions on reserved words in furtue versions of MySQL!!!

me!

[elis]

^ Ah, the 'by' was the problem as you said. Thank you all for your help. Now, it's finally working correctly.