searls03 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 can anyone help me as to whay I get this error: Problem with the query: INSERT INTO options (item_id, option ) VALUES('1', 'hi' ) You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'option ) VALUES('1', 'hi' )' at line 1 with this code: foreach($_POST["user"] AS $key => $val) { $user = $val; $id1 = $_POST['id1'][$key]; $sql = "INSERT INTO options (item_id, option ) VALUES('$id1', '$user' )"; $rs = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Problem with the query: $sql <br />" . mysql_error()); } <input type="checkbox" name="yes" id="checkme" /><div id = "extra"> <div id="user"> Enter User Names:<br> <input type="text" name="user[]"/><br></div> <div id="add_user" style="display: none;"><input type="text" name="user[]"/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriscloyd Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 <?php $users = $_POST['user']; foreach ($users as $key => $val) { $sql = "INSERT INTO options (`item_id`, `option`) VALUES ('{$key}', '{$val}' )"; $rs = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Problem with the query: {$sql} <br />" . mysql_error()); } ?> [/Code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 And to find out why your query was failing and the one chriscloyd posted will work, you should look here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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