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Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
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Posted by Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

Basic Data Entry PHP and MySQL

Greetings,

I'm trying my first data entry form working with PHP and MySQL. On the webpage it doesn't give me an error but when I check my database on phpmyadmin, the data didn't go through... my database table is empty...

SAMPLE.php

<form action="data_entry.php" method="POST">
First Name: <input type="text" name="firstName"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastName"><br>
Profession: <input type="text" name="profession"><br>
Employer: <input type="text" name="employer"><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="insert" value="submit">
</form>

data_entry.php

<?php
mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('julieblog');
?>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['insert'])) {
     $firstname = $_POST['firstName'];
     $lastName = $_POST['lastName'];
     $pro = $_POST['profession'];
     $emp = $_POST['employer'];

     $insert_data = mysql_query('INSERT INTO personal_data_entry VALUES("$firstname","$lastname","$pro","$emp")');
echo "Data are successfully save...";
?>

It didn't give me any kind of error, but the database table name "personal_data_entry" is empty... Can you give me any guidance... thanks

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