Brain buster

[chuckury]

It doesnt give me a connection or string error or anything. But it doesnt put anything into the database either can someone tell me whats wrong with this query?

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `htmltut` ( `author` , `title` , `dates` , `level` , `rating` , `tutorial` , `searchwords` , `activated` , `tutid` ) VALUES('$author', '$title', $date , '$skill', '10', '$tutorial', '$searchewords', '0', '');");

It used to work and I haven't changed a thing but now it doesnt 😕

[LordShryku]

do this

mysql_query("blah blah blah") or die(mysql_error());

[chuckury]

This is what I get:
You have an error in your SQL syntax near '.15 , 'Beginner', '10', 'asdf', 'asdf', '0', '')' at line 1

I forgot my '' 's aroud my $date.
I'm so stupid I stared at it for 30minutes and coudn't figure it out! thanks for helping