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    copied!<p>Try this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // Db Connection Details $host="xxx"; $username="xxx"; $password="xxx"; $db_name="xxx"; $tbl_name="LimitlessInventory"; // Handle Post if (isset($_POST['cmd']) &amp;&amp; $_POST['cmd'] == 'Add') { // Extract Post Vars extract($_POST); // Connect To DB mysql_connect($host, $username, $password) or die("Cannot Connect"); mysql_select_db($db_name) or die("Cannot Select Database"); // Insert Row mysql_query(sprintf("INSERT INTO $tbl_name(year, make, model, price, description, buyme) VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s')", mysql_real_escape_string($year), mysql_real_escape_string($make), mysql_real_escape_string($model), mysql_real_escape_string($price), mysql_real_escape_string($description), mysql_real_escape_string($buyme))) or die('Failed to insert row - '. mysql_error()); // Close DB mysql_close(); // Success echo "Data added"; } ?&gt; &lt;form action="" method="POST"&gt; Year: &lt;input type="text" size="4" maxlength="4" name="year" value="Ex.2012"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Make: &lt;input type="text" size="12" maxlength="12" name="make" value="Ex.Chevrolet"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Model: &lt;input type="text" size="12" maxlength="12" name="model" value="Ex.Corvette"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Price: &lt;input type="text" size="9" maxlength="9" name="price" value="Ex.$15,999.00"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Description: &lt;input type="text" size="75" maxlength="255" name="description" value="Ex.2000 Miles 5.7L V8 Red"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Link: &lt;input type="text" size="255" maxlength="255" name="buyme" value='&lt;a href=http://solemnprophecy.com/DAT201/LimitlessBuyNow.php&gt;Buy_ME!&lt;/a&gt;'&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="cmd" value="Add"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>As a word of advice, avoid mysql library, it's obsolete now. Use <code>mysqli</code> or <code>pdo</code>.</p>
 

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