PHP Form writes blank row to MySQL DB

I'm using a simple form to submit a row to my database. I don't get an error connecting to the database and it does inserts the row but it writes all values blank.

This is the form:

<form action="in开发者_运维技巧sert.php" method="post">
Título: <input type="text" name="title" />
Privacidad: <select type="text" name="privacy" />
  <option value="public">Publico</option>
  <option value="private">Privado</option>
</select><br/>
<input type="submit" />
</form>

And this is the insert.php file:

<?  
    $con = mysql_connect("removed","removed","removed");
    if (!$con)
      {
      die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
      }

mysql_select_db("copoetry", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO Poems (Title, Privacy)
VALUES
('$_POST[title]','$_POST[privacy]')";

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
echo "1 record added";

mysql_close($con)
?>

What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Just assign $_POST variables instead of trying to inline them into the statement. You will also have to escape whatever quotes may appear inside the POST data. So, do this:

$title = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['title']);
$privacy = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['privacy']);

$sql="INSERT INTO Poems (Title, Privacy)
VALUES
('$title','$privacy')";

Also, changing stuff to "'$_POST['title']','$_POST['privacy']'" won't work at least because to inline array values to a string, you have to use {} like $correct_string = "Hello {$_POST['world']}"

yes you should change the $_POST[title] and $_POST[privacy] to $_POST['title'] and $_POST['privacy'] .

and also change : <select type="text" name="privacy" />

to <select name="privacy" >

you could do this:
$sql="INSERT INTO Poems (Title, Privacy) VALUES ('".$_POST['title']."','".$_POST['privacy']."')";
or:
$sql="INSERT INTO Poems (Title, Privacy) VALUES ('{$_POST['title']}','{$_POST['privacy']}')";
should work, your problem is coming from the quotation marks. Find a way to get around them and you are done.

Leaving aside the GLARING PROBLEM of SQL injection / badly formed SQL, this should work as long as the values don't contain any single quotes.

Try writing $sql and var_export($_POST,true) to your log file for each operation to see what's actually happening.