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    copied!<p>I have a HTML form; I want to be able to set it so that if a field is empty, the field in the DB will actually be NULL and not just have the word NULL in the field. I thought that using this code would help, but it just puts the word NULL in the field. PHP Code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;pre&gt; &lt;?php if (isset($_POST['oc_item'])) { $oc_item = mysql_escape_string($_POST['oc_item']); $oc_itemdesc = (!empty($_POST['oc_itemdesc'])) ? $_POST['oc_itemdesc'] : NULL; $sql = "INSERT INTO catalog_dev (oc_item,oc_itemdesc) VALUES(''$oc_item','$oc_itemdesc')"; mysql_query($SQL); if (mysql_query($sql)) { echo '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your data has been submitted&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'; } else { echo '&lt;p&gt;Error adding submitted info: ' . mysql_error(). '&lt;/p&gt;'; } } ?&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; </code></pre> <p>HTML Code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;pre&gt; &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?&gt;" method="post"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Item Name&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input class="forms" type="text" size="50" maxlength="50" name="oc_item" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Item Description&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input class="forms" type="text" size="50" maxlength="50" name="oc_itemdesc" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit item" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want the field to actually be <em>NULL</em> and not have the field contain the word NULL. Thanks in advance.</p>
 

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