Inexplicable problem...

[RexRhino]

I have a problem with a statement, and I cannot, for the life of me, figure it out. Here is the statement... NOTE: The problem I am having is not with the MySQL statement, but it is occuring in the setting of the string itself!

$sql = "SELECT user_email, user_password FROM RT_user_table WHERE user_email = '$_POST['login_emal']'";

As far as I can tell, there should be nothing wrong with the above string (and like I said, ignore any SQL errors, I am not even doing a query on it yet... The error is coming from me assigning a text value to $sql).

I tried using other variable names (in case $sql was a reserved word), I tried putting a \ character in from of the ' in case it was a control character.

[RexRhino]

To follow up on the problem, the script seems to be having trouble with this:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM RT_user_table";

Now, I have done similiar statements all the time. Also, it is not that the last line wasn't terminated by a ; character, or anything like that. The script runs fine if I delete the statement above. Also, there is no query being done on the above statement. I am just trying to set the string.

[colbec]

I inserted this line in a script and it echoed back without problem, so there does not appear to be anything wrong with the line itself. Perhaps the error is in something that immediately precedes the line?