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ok the expected results are that when i go into index.php, i am supposed to see 2 boxes. whatever i type in both boxes should come up in the database under the fields "username" and "message" but for some reason, only "message" field gets filled when i chack in php my admin. here are my codes, canu tell me what i did wrong?

mysql_connect.php

<!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>

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.connected {color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:10px;
background-color:#000000;
padding:5px;
border:thin #999999;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("database") or die(mysql_error());
echo "<div class='connected'>Connected to MySQL<br />Connected to Database</div>";
?></body></html>

 

index.php

<!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 action="process.php" method="post">
  <p>
    <input name="username" type="text" />
<p>
    <textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea><br /><input value="submit message" type="submit" />
  </p>
</form>

</html>

 

 

process.php

<!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><?php include('mysql_connect.php'); ?>
<?php 
$username = $_POST['username'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO Users (username,message) VALUES ('$item','$message')");
echo"message added"; ?>
</body>
</html>

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I compressed all of your files into one to make it easier and i added in error checking. i found that you were inserting $item into the db for username instead of $username but i added in the error checking to show you if anything breaks

 

<html>
<head>
	<title>Inbox</title>
</head>
<body>
	<?php 
		if(mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password")) {
			if(mysql_select_db("database")) {
				if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
					if(isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['message'])) {
						$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
						$message = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['message']);
						if(mysql_query("INSERT INTO Users (username,message) VALUES ('" . $username . "','" . $message . "')"));
							$noerror = 'Message Sent'; 
						}
						else {
							$error = 'Cannot connect to database. Please notify an admin with this error: ' . mysql_error();
						}
					}
					else {
						$error = 'You must submit all of the information';
					}
				}
				else {
					print '<form action=' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . ' method=post>';
					print '<table>';
					print '<tr><td width=100px> User Name: </td><td> <input name=username type=text /> </td></tr>';
					print '<tr><td width=100px> Message: </td><td> <textarea name=message cols="50" rows="10"></textarea> </td></tr>';
					print '</table>';
					print '<input type=submit name=submit value="Send Message" />';
					print '</form>';
				}
			}
			else {
				$error = 'Cannot connect to database. Please notify an admin with this error: ' . mysql_error();
			}
		}
		else {
			$error = 'Cannot connect to database. Please notify an admin with this error: ' . mysql_error();
		}
	?>
</body>
</html>

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