Insert php array into mysql table

Question

Update: I forgot to mention that echo $matstring outputs '65.70', 'Coles','34 days','14' - which would appear to be the right syntax?

I'm a php/mysql newbie, and I think this is fairly basic, but having read all of the other stackoverflow questions on this topic and fiddling with different versions of my code for several hours I can't understand what I'm doing wrong. Would very much appreciate any help/suggestions.

Aim: pass data from my php array ($matrix) into a mysql table

$matrix[1]=
( [0] => 65.70 [1] => Coles [2] => 34 days [3] => 14 )

$matrix[2]=
( [0] => 62.70 [1] => Coles [2] => 13 days [3] => 14 )

$matrix[3]=
( [0] => 12.70 [1] => Safeway [2] => 43 days [3] => 14 )

Code:

$matstring=implode("','",$matrix[1]);
$matstring="'".$matstring."'";
mysql_query('INSERT INTO Australia (Price, Company, Days, Weight) VALUES ('$matstring')');

Solution 1

Corrected code:

$matstring=implode("','",$matrix[1]);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO Australia (Price, Company, Days, Weight) VALUES ('$matstring')");

(i.e. delete the second line from original code and put double quotes around the argument of mysql_query)

Appreciate user1847757's help - as s/he pointed out, $matstring itself was correct, but the single quotes inside of VALUES(' ') were being joined to the single quotes added to $matstring in the 2nd line of my original code, resulting in VALUES(''65.70','Coles','34 days','14'')

Thanks all for your help & suggestions

Solution 2

when i run this code :

$matrix = array();
$matrix[1] = array( 0 => 65.70, 1 => 'Coles', 2 => '34 days', 3 => 14 );
$matstring=implode("','",$matrix[1]);
$matstring="'".$matstring."'";
print "INSERT INTO Australia (`Price`, `Company`, `Days`, `Weight`) VALUES ($matstring)";

become result:

INSERT INTO Australia (`Price`, `Company`, `Days`, `Weight`) VALUES ('65.7','Coles','34 days','14')

Solution 3

$arr = array(
'Afghanistan',
'Albania',
'Algeria',
'American Samoa',
'Andorra',
'Angola',
'Anguilla',
'Antarctica',
'Antigua and Barbuda',
'Argentina',
'Armenia',
'Aruba',
'Australia',
'Austria',
'Azerbaijan',
'Bahamas',
'Bahrain',
'Bangladesh',
'Barbados',
'Belarus',
'Belgium',
'Belize',
'Benin',
'Bermuda',
'Bhutan',
'Bolivia',
'Bosnia and Herzegovina',
'Botswana',
'Bouvet Island',
'Brazil',
'British Indian Ocean Territory',
'Brunei Darussalam',
'Bulgaria',
'Burkina Faso',
'Burundi',
'Cambodia',
'Cameroon',
'Canada',
'Cape Verde',
'Cayman Islands',
'Central African Republic',
'Chad',
'Chile',
'China',
'Christmas Island',
'Cocos (Keeling) Islands',
'Colombia',
'Comoros',
'Congo',
'Cook Islands',
'Costa Rica',
'Croatia (Hrvatska)',
'Cuba',
'Cyprus',
'Czech Republic',
'Denmark',
'Djibouti',
'Dominica',
'Dominican Republic',
'East Timor',
'Ecuador',
'Egypt',
'El Salvador',
'Equatorial Guinea',
'Eritrea',
'Estonia',
'Ethiopia',
'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)',
'Faroe Islands',
'Fiji',
'Finland',
'France',
'France, Metropolitan',
'French Guiana',
'French Polynesia',
'French Southern Territories',
'Gabon',
'Gambia',
'Georgia',
'Germany',
'Ghana',
'Gibraltar',
'Guernsey',
'Greece',
'Greenland',
'Grenada',
'Guadeloupe',
'Guam',
'Guatemala',
'Guinea',
'Guinea-Bissau',
'Guyana',
'Haiti',
'Heard and Mc Donald Islands',
'Honduras',
'Hong Kong',
'Hungary',
'Iceland',
'India',
'Isle of Man',
'Indonesia',
'Iran (Islamic Republic of)',
'Iraq',
'Ireland',
'Israel',
'Italy',
'Ivory Coast',
'Jersey',
'Jamaica',
'Japan',
'Jordan',
'Kazakhstan',
'Kenya',
'Kiribati',
'Korea, Democratic People\'s Republic of',
'Korea, Republic of',
'Kosovo',
'Kuwait',
'Kyrgyzstan',
'Lao People\'s Democratic Republic',
'Latvia',
'Lebanon',
'Lesotho',
'Liberia',
'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya',
'Liechtenstein',
'Lithuania',
'Luxembourg',
'Macau',
'Macedonia',
'Madagascar',
'Malawi',
'Malaysia',
'Maldives',
'Mali',
'Malta',
'Marshall Islands',
'Martinique',
'Mauritania',
'Mauritius',
'Mayotte',
'Mexico',
'Micronesia, Federated States of',
'Moldova, Republic of',
'Monaco',
'Mongolia',
'Montenegro',
'Montserrat',
'Morocco',
'Mozambique',
'Myanmar',
'Namibia',
'Nauru',
'Nepal',
'Netherlands',
'Netherlands Antilles',
'New Caledonia',
'New Zealand',
'Nicaragua',
'Niger',
'Nigeria',
'Niue',
'Norfolk Island',
'Northern Mariana Islands',
'Norway',
'Oman',
'Pakistan',
'Palau',
'Palestine',
'Panama',
'Papua New Guinea',
'Paraguay',
'Peru',
'Philippines',
'Pitcairn',
'Poland',
'Portugal',
'Puerto Rico',
'Qatar',
'Reunion',
'Romania',
'Russian Federation',
'Rwanda',
'Saint Kitts and Nevis',
'Saint Lucia',
'Saint Vincent and the Grenadines',
'Samoa',
'San Marino',
'Sao Tome and Principe',
'Saudi Arabia',
'Senegal',
'Serbia',
'Seychelles',
'Sierra Leone',
'Singapore',
'Slovakia',
'Slovenia',
'Solomon Islands',
'Somalia',
'South Africa',
'South Sudan',
'South Georgia South Sandwich Islands',
'Spain',
'Sri Lanka',
'St. Helena',
'St. Pierre and Miquelon',
'Sudan',
'Suriname',
'Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands',
'Swaziland',
'Sweden',
'Switzerland',
'Syrian Arab Republic',
'Taiwan',
'Tajikistan',
'Tanzania, United Republic of',
'Thailand',
'Togo',
'Tokelau',
'Tonga',
'Trinidad and Tobago',
'Tunisia',
'Turkey',
'Turkmenistan',
'Turks and Caicos Islands',
'Tuvalu',
'Uganda',
'Ukraine',
'United Arab Emirates',
'United Kingdom',
'United States',
'United States minor outlying islands',
'Uruguay',
'Uzbekistan',
'Vanuatu',
'Vatican City State',
'Venezuela',
'Vietnam',
'Virgin Islands (British)',
'Virgin Islands (U.S.)',
'Wallis and Futuna Islands',
'Western Sahara',
'Yemen',
'Zaire',
'Zambia',
'Zimbabwe'
);
foreach($arr as $ar){

  $query = "INSERT INTO country(country) VALUES('$ar') ";
  mysqli_query($connect,$query);

}
die;

Comments

[user2037290]

I'm still a bit confused. When I echo $matstring with the code I posted, it outputs '65.70', 'Coles','34 days','14'. So isn't that exactly the syntax I require? Why can't I pass it into VALUES('$matstring')?

[user2037290]

I tried this correction but it still didn't work (script breaks)

[user18477575]

Your $matstring is correct; however, when you use VALUES ('$matstring') in your SQL string, you are adding additional quotations around it, creating VALUES(''65.70','Coles','34 days',14'')