Some background: I initially tried doing Apache, MySql, and PHP on windows, each installed separately (what a PITA that was!). Eventually I heard that I would be better suited on the mac, so I got the MAMP.
Glad to find that everything has been installed, I try playing around with it. Basically everything works, except for MySQL queries (I am trying to insert data into a table).
Here's my code:
<h1>hello world</h1>
<?php
echo "hello ";
echo date('H:i:s, jS F Y');
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'root');
if ($link)
echo "success";
else
echo "failure";
$db_selected = mysql_select_db('MyDB', $link);
if ($db_selected)
echo "success";
else
echo "failure";
$my_query = mysql_query($link,"INSERT INTO comments (cName, cComment)
VALUES ('Peter', 'Hellloooooo')");
if ($my_query)
echo "success";
else
echo "failure";
mysql_close($link);
?>
My output looks like the following:
hello world
hello 00:14:12, 19th March 2013successsuccessfailure
As you can see, mysql_connect and mysql_select_db work, but mysql_query does not. I've spent many fruitless hours trying to figure this out. What is wrong with the code?