PHP INSERT Bad data

I have the code below. It builds an INSERT command, and it gets run on the
database. Everything works fine except the database is only receiving the
first 6 characters of the phone number.

The field in the database can hold 10 digits (confirmed). The echo
statement shows that the phone number is indeed 10 characters long.

The second echo statement show the $query looks similar too:
INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', 'SomeFirstname', 'SomeLastName',
'License', 'adrian.parker@sympatico.ca', ' 6135315960', ' ', ' ', ' ')

When I run this query in mySQL when logged onto the terminal, the phone
number appears fine.

How could truncation be happening?


if (isset($_POST["firstName"]))
{
$query = "INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', '" . $_POST["firstName"] .
"', '
" . $_POST["lastName"] . "', '
" . $_POST["licenseNumber"] . "', '
" . $_POST["eMail"] . "', '
" . $_POST["phone"] . "', '
" . $_POST["city"] . "', '
" . $_POST["address"] . "', '
" . $_POST["birthDate"] . "')";

echo "Phone number is: " . $_POST["phone"] . "<br><br>";
echo "The query statement is: " . $query . "<br>";

$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Adding the student to the database
failed: " . mysql_error());
}



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In article <_0akc.41055$OU.957555@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"Adrian Parker" <adrian.parker@NOSPAMsympatico.ca> wrote:

> The field in the database can hold 10 digits (confirmed). The echo
> statement shows that the phone number is indeed 10 characters long.
>
> The second echo statement show the $query looks similar too:
> INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', 'SomeFirstname', 'SomeLastName',
> 'License', 'adrian.parker@sympatico.ca', ' 6135315960', ' ', ' ', ' ')

I would guess the space between the first ' and the 6 is messing things
up. I don't know how the phone number column in your database is
defined, but could there be some silent character-to-number conversion
going on here, with unwanted results? Try it without that first space
and see what happens.

JP

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"Jan Pieter Kunst" <devnull@cauce.org> wrote in message
news:devnull-466947.18525729042004@news1.news.xs4all.nl...
> In article <_0akc.41055$OU.957555@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> "Adrian Parker" <adrian.parker@NOSPAMsympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > The field in the database can hold 10 digits (confirmed). The echo
> > statement shows that the phone number is indeed 10 characters long.
> >
> > The second echo statement show the $query looks similar too:
> > INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', 'SomeFirstname', 'SomeLastName',
> > 'License', 'adrian.parker@sympatico.ca', ' 6135315960', ' ', ' ', ' ')
>
> I would guess the space between the first ' and the 6 is messing things
> up. I don't know how the phone number column in your database is
> defined, but could there be some silent character-to-number conversion
> going on here, with unwanted results? Try it without that first space
> and see what happens.

It's being stuffed into a string, so there should be no problem. There is
no middleware between the database and my script, so there should be nothing
altering the data.

.... ok, removed the leading space, it fixed it!

Why would a leading space cause problems when inserting into a text field?


Adrian

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:52:57 +0200
Jan Pieter Kunst <devnull@cauce.org> wrote:

> In article <_0akc.41055$OU.957555@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> "Adrian Parker" <adrian.parker@NOSPAMsympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > The field in the database can hold 10 digits (confirmed). The
> > echo statement shows that the phone number is indeed 10 characters
> > long.
> >
> > The second echo statement show the $query looks similar too:
> > INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', 'SomeFirstname',
> > 'SomeLastName','License', 'adrian.parker@sympatico.ca', '
> > 6135315960', ' ', ' ', ' ')
>
> I would guess the space between the first ' and the 6 is messing
> things up. I don't know how the phone number column in your database
> is defined, but could there be some silent character-to-number
> conversion going on here, with unwanted results? Try it without that
> first space and see what happens.

If the field is INT the space won't matter, but an INT is 4 bytes. It
lets you store x such that -2147483648 < x < 2147483647. If it's INT,
then it won't fit. If it's varchar(10), then '6135315960' will, but
a string such as ' 6135315960' won't.

"Kelly Thompson" <kthompson_11_11@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:20040429150809.6abd4f7a.kthompson_11_11@hotma il.com...
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:52:57 +0200
> Jan Pieter Kunst <devnull@cauce.org> wrote:
>
> > In article <_0akc.41055$OU.957555@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> > "Adrian Parker" <adrian.parker@NOSPAMsympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > The field in the database can hold 10 digits (confirmed). The
> > > echo statement shows that the phone number is indeed 10 characters
> > > long.
> > >
> > > The second echo statement show the $query looks similar too:
> > > INSERT INTO students Values ('', '1', 'SomeFirstname',
> > > 'SomeLastName','License', 'adrian.parker@sympatico.ca', '
> > > 6135315960', ' ', ' ', ' ')
> >
> > I would guess the space between the first ' and the 6 is messing
> > things up. I don't know how the phone number column in your database
> > is defined, but could there be some silent character-to-number
> > conversion going on here, with unwanted results? Try it without that
> > first space and see what happens.
>
> If the field is INT the space won't matter, but an INT is 4 bytes. It
> lets you store x such that -2147483648 < x < 2147483647. If it's INT,
> then it won't fit. If it's varchar(10), then '6135315960' will, but
> a string such as ' 6135315960' won't.

It's a Varchar(10) field.

Why again does the leading space remove 4 bytes from the end of the string?


Adrian