ramforinkas Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Hi all,I'm fairly new with PHP/HTML and I'm working on implementing a simple comment field for a website I'm designing. The issue I'm having is that the comment field seems to only display integers, and not strings. Other then not displaying words, I'm not getting any errors. The database seems to be working fine, however it's only saving Integers, and not Strings. I've checked the columns and the one which is holding the comments is using type "text", and the ID is "int". I don't believe the issue is with the table, but rather somewhere with the PHP. Here is the code below: <?php 02 mysql_connect("localhost","root","changeme"); 03 mysql_select_db("certestdb"); 04 $comment=$_POST['comment']; 05 $submit=$_POST['submit']; 06 07 08 $dbLink = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "changeme"); 09 mysql_query("SET character_set_client=utf8", $dbLink); 10 mysql_query("SET character_set_connection=utf8", $dbLink); 11 12 13 14 if (!empty($_POST)) { 15 //$comment=$_POST['comment']; 16 //$submit=$_POST['submit']; 17 18 19 if($submit) { 20 if($comment) { 21 $insert=mysql_query("INSERT INTO comment (comment) VALUES ($comment) "); 22 } else { 23 echo "please fill out all fields"; 24 } 25 } 26 } 27 28 ?> 29 30 <html> 31 <head> 32 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 33 <title>Comment box</title> 34 </head> 35 <div style="width:100px; height:100px; margin: 2 auto;"> 36 <body> 37 <center> 38 <form name="comment.php" method="post" action=""> 39 <table> 40 <tr><td colspan="2">Comments: </td></tr> 41 <tr><td colspan="5"><textarea name="comment" rows="5" cols="150"></textarea></td></tr> 42 <tr><td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Comment"></td></tr> 43 </table> 44 </form> 45 46 <?php 47 $dbLink = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "changeme"); 48 mysql_query("SET character_set_results=utf8", $dbLink); 49 50 51 52 $getquery=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comment ORDER BY id DESC"); 53 while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($getquery)) { 54 $id=$rows['id']; 55 $comment=$rows['comment']; 56 echo $comment . '<br/>' . '<br/>' . '<hr size="1"/>'; 57 } 58 59 ?> 60 61 </body> 62 </html> If anyone might know what is causing this and could help, it would be much appreciated!Thanks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/287107-issue-with-simple-comment-box/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzman1 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 mysql_select_db extension should be set after mysql_connect(). mysql_connect("localhost","root","changeme"); mysql_select_db("certestdb"); $dbLink = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "changeme"); You don't have to open more than one connection to database server and using mysql_error() function to debug your queries. All mysql_* extensions are deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0, and will be removed in the future, instead you should consider using PDO or MySQLi libraries. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/287107-issue-with-simple-comment-box/#findComment-1473255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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