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    <p>I'm creating a very simple php forum system to integrate with my portal system (I tried to integrate some existent ones, but all I've found have lots of features I don't want, so I decided to create my own). The page bellow is just a start point from the board creation page, but when I click on submit, I just get the following error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc='Testing special characters á é ó ç ã ñ'' at line 1</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php function renderForm($nome, $desc, $error) { $nome = htmlspecialchars($_POST['nome']); $desc = htmlspecialchars($_POST['desc']); ?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;New Record&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;?php if ($error != '') { echo '&lt;div style="padding:4px; border:1px solid red; color:red;"&gt;'.$error.'&lt;/div&gt;'; } ?&gt; &lt;form action="" method="post"&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Nome: *&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="nome" /&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Desc: *&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="desc" /&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;* required&lt;/p&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; &lt;?php } include("../../config.php"); if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { $nome = htmlspecialchars($_POST['nome']); $desc = htmlspecialchars($_POST['desc']); if ($nome == '' || $desc== '') { $error = 'ERROR: Please fill in all required fields!'; renderForm($nome, $desc, $error); } else { mysql_query("INSERT forum_boards SET nome='$nome', desc='$desc'") or die(mysql_error()); } } else { renderForm('','',''); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>What could be this?</p>
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    1. CO"*check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version*". I wonder if doing that would help... Be aware that you are using [an **obsolete** database API](http://stackoverflow.com/q/12859942/19068) and should use [a modern replacement](http://php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.api.choosing.php).
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    2. CO`desc` is a MySQL reserved word; you need to wrap it in backticks in your SQL if you're using it as a column name
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    3. COoh that nasty `desc` word - a curse of all the php noobs (and endless source of the rep points for the SO haunters)
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