PHP white screen of death every time. What am I doing wrong?

Question

I\'m a complete noob to PHP and working with mysql so you know I do however have a great deal of experience with HMTL and CSS. All I need is for a form on my site to upload the

Answer 1

Include this two lines at the very top of your php code:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

It is going to enable error reporting and so you will be able to debug your script. Maybe the problem is that the reading of $_POST variables (and of any array type variable) should be made with 'quotes' when using string index names:

 $_POST[firstName] must be written as follows:
 $_POST['firstName']

A good way of making this query more secure (against sql injection attacks for example) is to scape the values in POST instead of passing it directly to the query.

 $firstName = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['firstName']);

The value in POST will be scaped so you can pass it to your SQL.

Try to make that will all your variables:

$sql = "INSERT INTO $usertable 
(firstName, lastName, streetAddress, city, state, zip, country, email, phone, badgeName) 
VALUES ('$firstName', '$lastName', '$streetAddress', '$city', '$state', '$zip', '$country', '$email', '$phone', '$badgeName')";

Finally you need to actually execute the query:

mysql_query($sql);

If it goes ok you'll see no errors, but be shure to enable error reporting to this script. When everything it's ok remember to remove the error reporting.