How to include a PHP variable inside a MySQL statement

Question

When I put the variable $type inside VALUES then this doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

$type = 'testing';
mysql_query("INSERT INTO contents (type, reporter, description) 
     VALUES($type, 'john', 'whatever')");

Thanx in advance!

Answer 1

Hii,

You can try this:

$query="SELECT * FROM CountryInfo WHERE Name = '".$name."'";

and you define $name whatever you want.
And another way, the complex way, is like that:

$query = " SELECT '" . $GLOBALS['Name'] . "' .* " .
         " FROM CountryInfo " .
         " INNER JOIN District " .
         " ON District.CountryInfoId = CountryInfo.CountryInfoId " .
         " INNER JOIN City " .
         " ON City.DistrictId = District.DistrictId " .
         " INNER JOIN '" . $GLOBALS['Name'] . "' " .
         " ON '" . $GLOBALS['Name'] . "'.CityId = City.CityId " .
         " WHERE CountryInfo.Name = '" . $GLOBALS['CountryName'] .
         "'";