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I'm trying to query my server for a message board and keep getting the above error. What am I doing wrong?
//insert new message in db
if(mysqli_query($sql_con,"INSERT INTO shout_box(user, message, ip_address) value('$username','$message','$user_ip')"))
{
$msg_time = date('h:i A M d',time()); // current time
echo '<div class="shout_msg"><time>'.$msg_time.'</time><span class="username">'.$username.'</span><span class="message">'.$message.'</span></div>';
}
// delete all records except last 10, if you don't want to grow your db size!
mysqli_query($sql_con,"DELETE FROM shout_box WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT * FROM (SELECT id FROM shout_box ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0, 10) as sb)");
}
elseif($_POST["fetch"]==1)
{
$results = mysqli_query($sql_con,"SELECT user, message FROM (select * FROM shout_box ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10) shout_box ORDER BY shout_box.id ASC");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
$msg_time = date('h:i A M d',strtotime($row["date_time"])); //message posted time
echo '<div class="shout_msg"><time>'.$msg_time.'</time><span class="username">'.$row["user"].'</span> <span class="message">'.$row["message"].'</span></div>';
}
}
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