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[Anon]

Okay i am having trouble inserting data into a databse. Plase help me. Is this right.
$connection =@mysql_connect("$server", "$user", "$pass") or die("Could not Connect.");
$db = @mysql_select_db($dbname, $connection) or die("Could not select database.");
$sql = "INSERT INTO software (name, size, description) VALUES ($name, $size, $description)";
$result = @($connection,$sql) or die("Could not execute query.");

[Anon]

Dear TJ,

Try as follows putting the variables between ''.

$sql = "INSERT INTO software (name, size, description) VALUES ('$name', '$size', '$description')";

solomon