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    <p>I have been creating a website on my local server with Joomla! 3.0.3. I have successfully connected an external database to this website and can query it (see previous question of mine: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15670555/where-statement-not-working-in-joomla-3-0-3-php-request">WHERE statement not working in Joomla! 3.0.3. php request</a>). But when I try to modify an entry in my external database, the server returns an error screen.</p> <p>Here's the code I'm using in the back end of Joomla! (using the Sourcerer extension). I try to add a new currency to a MySQL "currency" table in my external database.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /**///////// LOAD EXTERNAL DATABASE (i.e. not the Joomla one) /////////**/ $option = array(); $option['driver'] = 'mysql'; // Database driver name $option['host'] = 'localhost'; // Database host name $option['user'] = 'root'; // User for database authentication $option['password'] = ''; // Password for database authentication $option['database'] = 'externaldatabase'; // Database name $db = JDatabase::getInstance( $option ); /**///////// CREATE NEW QUERY OBJECT /////////**/ $query = $db-&gt;getQuery(true); //OK /**///////// SELECT RECORDS &amp; INSERT A NEW ROW /////////**/ $columns=array('ID', 'CurrencyCode', 'FullName'); $values=array('3', 'GBP', 'Pound Sterling'); $query-&gt;insert($db-&gt;quoteName('currency')); $query-&gt;columns($db-&gt;quoteName($columns)); $query-&gt;values(implode(',', $values); /**///////// RESET QUERY /////////**/ $db-&gt;setQuery($query); //OK try { $result = $db-&gt;execute(); } catch (Exception $e) { // catch } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The browser returns the following two errors:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Parse error</strong>: syntax error, unexpected ';' in C:\wamp\www\plugins\system\sourcerer\helper.php(450) : runtime-created function on line 46</li> <li><strong>Fatal error</strong>: Function name must be a string in C:\wamp\www\plugins\system\sourcerer\helper.php on line 454</li> </ul> <p>Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance for your help.</p> <hr> <p>Here's the updated code that's working for those of you interested!</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $values=array('3', '"GBP"', '"Pound Sterling"'); $query-&gt;insert($db-&gt;quoteName('currency')); $query-&gt;columns($db-&gt;quoteName($columns)); $query-&gt;values(implode(',', $values)**)**; ?&gt; </code></pre>
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