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I have tried many times to get this to send the info to the database and it just isn't working... It is for a forum I am working on and this is the "reply to a topic" code and everything seems like it should work but it just WONT send the dang info to the database! Any help would be GREAT!

 

<?php
//connect to server
$host = 'myserver'; 
$user = 'XXXXXXX';
$pass = '######';
$database = 'TylorsTestDB';

mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($database) or die(mysql_error());

//Check to see if we are showing the form or adding
if (!$_POST){
//Showing the forum; check for required item in query string
if (!isset($_GET["post_id"])) {
	header("Location: topiclist.php");
	exit;
}

//still have to verify topic and post
$verify_sql = "SELECT ft.topic_id, ft.topic_title FROM forum_posts AS fp LEFT JOIN forum_topics AS ft ON fp.topic_id =	
ft.topic_id WHERE fp.post_id = '".$_GET["post_id"]."'";

//Connecting here again might be redundent but I am trying to get it to work so...
mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($database) or die(mysql_error());
$verify_res = mysql_query($verify_sql) or die(mysql_error());

if (mysql_num_rows($verify_res) < 1){
//This post or topic dosn't exist
header("Location:topiclist.php");
exit;
} else {
	//Get the topic id and title
	while($topic_info = mysql_fetch_array($verify_res)); {
		$topic_id = $topic_info['topic_id'];
		$topic_title = stripslashes($topic_info['topic_title']);
		} 
echo "
<!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>Post Your Reply in ".$topic_title."</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Post Your Reply in ".$topic_title."</h1>
<form method=\"post\" action=\"".$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]."\">

<p><strong>Your Email Address:</strong><br />
<input type=\"text\" name=\"post_owner\" size=\"40\" maxlength=\"150\">
</p>

<p><strong>Post Text</strong><br />
<textarea name=\"post_text\" rows=\"8\" cols=\"40\" wrap=\"virtual\"></textarea>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"topic_id\" value=\"$topic_id\">
</p>

<p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Add Post\"></p>
</form>


</body>
</html>";
}
//Free Result
mysql_free_result($verify_res);

}else if ($_POST) {
//check for required items from form
if ((!$_POST["topic_id"]) || (!$_POST["post_text"]) ||
(!$_POST["post_owner"])){
header("Location:topiclist.php");
exit;
}

//Add the post

$add_post_sql = "INSERT INTO forum_posts (topic_id, post_text, post_create_time, post_owner)
VALUES (' ".$_POST["topic_id"]." ' , ' ".$_POST["post_text"]." ', '' , ' ".$_POST["post_owner"]." ')";
$add_post_res = mysql_query($add_post_sql) or die (mysql_error());

//Redirect user to topic
header("Location: showtopic.php?topic_id=".$_POST["topic_id"]);
exit;
}

?>

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Remove this as stated above

 

//Connecting here again might be redundent but I am trying to get it to work so...

mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or die(mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($database) or die(mysql_error());

 

Also, is post_create_time a required field in your DB?  If so, do you have a default set since you are not inserting it?

 

If the query is failing, you should get a error, are there no errors?  Have you checked your Log File to see if the errors are suppressed to the browser?

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