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    <p>lets get straight to my problem, the code I have written here does not write to my database and I cannot figue out why. At the moment I am simply trying to get to grips with php and sql so there is no point to this form other than learning. Here is the error i am getting(the first sentence 'connected to database' is from my if statement): </p> <p>"Connected to databaseError: 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 ''test' ('name') VALUES ('daniel')' at line 1"</p> <p>The code I have may look a little confusing as some of it is from w3schools and some is from a friend. I cannot figure out why this code isn't working, I have tried many variations of the syntax based on loads of articles I have found online and on stackoverflow but none seem to work. I fear that maybe I am not even connectec to the database, although my if statement tells me otherwise, so that could be a problem?</p> <p>Hopefully if this gets solved this question will clarify database connection and writing to a database from a form in one hit. Thanks in advance guys and here's my code.</p> <p>HTML</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="insert.php" method="post"&gt; Name: &lt;input type="text" name="namefield" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>PHP (insert.php)</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbname = 'carbon_db'; $dbuser = 'username'; $dbpass = 'password'; $con = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass); if($con == FALSE) { echo 'Cannot connect to database' . mysql_error(); } else { echo 'Connected to database'; } mysql_select_db($dbname, $con); $sql="INSERT INTO 'test' ('name') VALUES ('$_POST[namefield]')"; if (!mysql_query($sql, $con)) { die('Error: ' . mysql_error()); } echo "1 record added"; mysql_close($con) ?&gt; </code></pre>
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