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    <p>I have the following <strong>working</strong> MySQL insert:</p> <pre><code>$tableSelect = $_POST["tableSelect"]; $companyName = $_POST["companyName"]; $telephone = $_POST["telephone"]; $fax = $_POST["fax"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $address = $_POST["address"]; $postcode = $_POST["postcode"]; $category = $_POST["category"]; $contact = $_POST["contact"]; $contactTel = $_POST["contactTel"]; $contactEmail = $_POST["contactEmail"]; $sql = "INSERT INTO $tableSelect (companyName,telephone,fax,email,address,postcode,category,contact,contactTel, contactEmail) VALUES ('$companyName','$telephone','$fax','$email','$address','$postcode','$category', '$contact','$contactTel','$contactEmail');"; if (!mysqli_query($con,$sql)) { die('Error: ' . mysqli_error($con)); } </code></pre> <p>However, I've tried to change this into a prepared statement to protect myself from injection, like so:</p> <pre><code>$stmt = $con-&gt;prepare("INSERT INTO suppliers (companyName,telephone,fax,email,address,postcode, category,contact,contactTel,contactEmail) VALUES(:companyName, :telephone, :fax, :email, :address, :postcode, :category, :contact, :contactTel, :contactEmail);"); if ($stmt !== FALSE) { $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':companyName',$companyName); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':telephone',$telephone); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':fax',$fax); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':email',$email); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':address',$address); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':postcode',$postcode); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':category',$category); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':contact',$contact); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':contactTel',$contactTel); $stmt-&gt;bindParam(':contactEmail',$contactEmail); $companyName = $_POST["companyName"]; $telephone = $_POST["telephone"]; $fax = $_POST["fax"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $address = $_POST["address"]; $postcode = $_POST["postcode"]; $category = $_POST["category"]; $contact = $_POST["contact"]; $contactTel = $_POST["contactTel"]; $contactEmail = $_POST["contactEmail"]; $stmt-&gt;execute(); } else { echo "Could not connect"; } </code></pre> <p>Every time I run it, <code>$stmt</code> returns false. It's the first time I've used prepared statements and I'm fairly new to MySQL so some pointers would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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    1. COIt might be an issue that you're binding a variable called `tableSelect` that isn't used in your query. But in your original query, you're using that for the table name, and you cannot use a bound parameter for the table name.
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    2. COyet another typo-based offtopic question...
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    3. COHi, sorry, I forgot to remove tableSelect before I posted the question - I have tried removing it and it hasn't worked
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