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Chat box confusion


jon4433

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Hi,

 

I'm trying to make an area where people can post stuff, status updates etc... I have a small layout done, but something has confused me.

 

I'm trying to get it so when somebody is logged in, and posts something in the chat area, it displays:

[Name]

[Comment]

 

I know how to read from the database, but for some reason, when I press the 'submit' button, the text in the 'comment' box isn't inserting into my 'comment' column in my database... But I want it so it inserts in the users column. Is this possible?

 

<?php

if($submit)
{
$comment = $_POST['comment'];
$submit = $_POST['submit'];	

$connect = mysql_connect("****","****","****") or die("Could not connect to database.");
mysql_select_db("****") or die ("Could not find database!");

$query("INSERT INTO login ('comment') VALUES('$comment')");
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
}

?>


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form method="POST">
Comment: <input type="text" name="comment" /><br />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>

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