I cant get the form data to go into database. What am I doing wrong?

Question

CODE UPDATED, STILL NOT WORKING. I know I´m apparently using mysql function which will be outdated. But for now all I want is for this code to work. I want to know what I´m

Answer 1

Your insert query is wrong and also open to SQL injections. Here's how it should be:

$query = "INSERT INTO `test`.`test_tabell` 
    VALUES ('', '" . mysql_real_escape_string($firstname) . "', '" . mysql_real_escape_string($surname) . "')";

Notice the changing of all backticks to apostrophe.

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Also, you're trying to execute the query before defining it.

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EDIT

As per your information related to table definition, you can skip the id field from your table. The INSERT query will become:

$query = "INSERT INTO `test`.`test_tabell` (`FIRSTNAME`, `SURNAME`)
    VALUES ('" . mysql_real_escape_string($firstname) . "', '" . mysql_real_escape_string($surname) . "')";
$query_run = mysql_query( $query );