Problem with coding MySQL query


Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

I'm having heaps of trouble getting one of my PHP/MySQL queries to work for some reason (and the funny thing is there are plenty that are identical to it all the way through the site) so I'm wondering if someone can spot the problem. (I've basically torn all the code apart trying to work it out and have changed values that are being submitted, etc to try and get it to work, so I'm tearing my hair out now!)

Code: $staffID = $_POST['staffID'];
$date = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
Did you know?Explore Trending and Topic pages for more stories like this.

$sql2 = "INSERT INTO Order (date, staffID)
VALUES ('$date', '$staffID')";
$result2 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql2)
or die ("Couldn't execute insert into order query.");
As it's not working, I keep getting "Couldn't execute insert into order query."

The MySQL database is named Order, and has orderID, date and staffID. orderID is int(8 ), unsigned zerofill and autoincrement. date is datetime, and staffID is int(4) unsigned zerofill. Staff members enter the zeros in their staffID when putting their details into the form (so would enter 0004).

Here's the full code:

createorder.php
Code: <?php

include("credentials.inc");

switch (@$_POST['do']) {

case "neworder":

$cxn = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $password, $dbname)
or die ("Connection failed.");

$staffID = $_POST['staffID'];
$sku = $_POST['sku'];
$quantity = $_POST['quantity'];

$sql = "SELECT staffID FROM Staff
WHERE staffID = '$staffID'";
$result = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql)
or die ("Couldn't execute staff query.");
$num = mysqli_num_rows($result);

if ($num > 0) { //staff member found

$date = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");

$sql2 = "INSERT INTO Order (date, staffID)
VALUES ('$date', '$staffID')";
$result2 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql2)
or die ("Couldn't execute insert into order query.");

$sql3 = "SELECT orderID FROM Order
WHERE date = '$date'";
$result3 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql3)
or die ("Couldn't execute select from order query.");
$rowname = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result3);
extract ($rowname);

$sql4 = "INSERT INTO ItemsOrdered (orderID, sku, quantity)
VALUES ('$orderID', '$sku', '$quantity')";
$result4 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql4)
or die ("Couldn't execute insert into ItemsOrdered query.");
header("Location: success4.php");
}
else {
$message = "Staff member does not exist.<br />";
include("createorder.inc");
}


break;

default:

include("createorder.inc");

}

?>createorder.inc
Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Adelaide Books</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="body">
<table id="main" cellspacing="0px">
<tr><td id="logo" colspan="3">
<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="Adelaide Books"/></td>
<td class="space">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="right">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="space">&nbsp;</td>
<td id="text">
<h1>Create New Order</h1>

<form action="createorder.php" method="POST">
<table width="250" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">

<?php

if (isset($message)) {
echo "<tr><td style='color:red' colspan='2' >$message <br /></td></tr>";
}
?>

<tr>
<td width="75px" align="right">Staff ID:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="staffID" size="25" maxsize="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="75px" align="right">SKU:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="sku" size="25" maxsize="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="75px" align="right">Quantity:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="quantity" size="10" maxsize="20"></td>
</tr>
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="neworder">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="neworder" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp;<br/><a href="orders.php"><img src="images/back.gif" alt="Back" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="space">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="right">&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope someone can help!
No comments posted yet

Your Answer:

Login to answer
221 Like 6 Dislike
Previous forums Next forums
Other forums

cURL and Sessions
Ohai.

So, I'm trying to cURL a bunch of things off of a page, and put them into a session. I'

Rand() help needed
Hi all,

Can someone explain and give me a quick example of how I would go about this?

Mysterious Timeouts
I've deployed a few simple AJAX-enabled web page to a local server that is accessed through the Inte

NOOB needs help with upload file
The intent of this form is to create a folder for a client and upload an image into another folder '

DataTable Help Required
Hi all I am creating an app that utilises and MS Access back end and queries it quite a bit at vario

Spaghetti Code
So.

I've pretty much reached the point where I have so many isset s on one page that I can't

Doubles are giving me problems
Ok so, first of all i made a double = 0.05, but when running the debugger it shows up as 0.04999. I

Change Sort Order to Display Newest File First
Hi Guys,

I have a page that sorts the contents (PDFs) of a directory and displays them on the

Page not Loading After Test
Hey All

It seemed that an inlcude statement wasn't working for some reason, so I tried a more

TinyMCE / Ajax Postback Problem
Hiya all,

I have a page which loads the TinyMCE editor. On the postback I obviously want to f

Sign up to write
Sign up now if you have flare of writing..
Login   |   Register
Follow Us
Indyaspeak @ Facebook Indyaspeak @ Twitter Indyaspeak @ Pinterest RSS



Play Free Quiz and Win Cash