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    <p>I have a simple form with some PHP code to post to a database some simple information.</p> <p>The connection to the database is just fine because it display items I have manually entered exactly how I want it to; however. I cannot get it to post from the form into the database. I have tinkered with a lot of code with no luck. Anyone see anything I'm missing? Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;center&gt; &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?&gt;" method="POST"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Enter in my guestbook!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Nickname:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="guestbook_name" maxlength="25"&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Write About Your Day:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;textarea name="guesbook_message" rows="6" cols="60" maxlength="255"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;input type ="submit" value="POST"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;hr&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;?php if (mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'root') &amp;&amp; mysql_select_db('mydb')) { //echo 'Connected to the database!'; $time = gmdate("l dS \of F Y h:i:s A"); $errors = array(); if (isset($_POST['guestbook_name'], $_POST['guestbook_message'])) { echo 'Set data!'; $guestbook_name = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities( $_POST['guestbook_name'])); $guestbook_message = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities( $_POST['guestbook_message'])); if (empty($guestbook_name) || empty($guestbook_message)) { $errors[] = 'All fields are required.'; } if (strlen($guestbook_name)&gt;25 || strlen($guestbook_message)&gt;250){ $errors[] = 'One or more fields exceeded the character limit!'; } if (empty($erros)) { $insert = "INSERT INTO guestbook VALUES ('','$time','$guestbook_name','$guestbook_message')"; if (mysql_query($insert)){ header ('Location: '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); } else { $errors[] = 'Something went wrong. Try again.'; } } else { foreach($errors as $error) { echo'&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'.$error.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;'; } } } // display entries $entries = mysql_query("SELECT timestamp, name, message FROM guestbook ORDER BY timestamp DESC"); if (mysql_num_rows($entries)==0){ echo 'No entries, yet.'; } else { //echo 'Entries found.'; while ($entries_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($entries)){ $entries_timestamp = $entries_row['timestamp']; $entries_name = $entries_row['name']; $entries_message = $entries_row['message']; echo '&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posted by '.$entries_name.' on '.$entries_timestamp.'&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'.$entries_message.'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'; } } } else { echo 'Could not connect at this time.'; } ?&gt; &lt;/center&gt; </code></pre> <p>My main issue is the submitting the database, any help would be great, thanks!</p> <p>Kyle B.</p>
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    1. COWhat error are you getting?
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    2. COIs your unique identifier an auto-incremental field?
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    3. COBTW if you want the form to go to the current page that you are on you can simply leave the form action blank.
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