CMS tutorial part 3 - mysql_close error

[einsteinsboi]

Hi all,

I'm working through the CMS tutorial and running into an error in part 3. When I try to add a new article, i get the error

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\wamp\www\MyCMS\includes\DbConnector.php on line 34
Sorry, there was an error saving to the database

Warning: mysql_close(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\wamp\www\MyCMS\includes\DbConnector.php on line 58

I'm using $_POST since I'm on PHP5, and I've changed the database settings to reflect my db host, name and password. Otherwise my code is exactly as in the tutorial

Any ideas?

thanks

[einsteinsboi]

OK, so after fiddling with the code some more and going back and forth, I now simply get

Sorry, there was an error saving to the database

with no error message, even more baffling!

[einsteinsboi]

OK, problem solved. After simply getting a "Sorry... " message, I added the line

echo mysql_errno() . ": " . mysql_error(). "\n";

and was able to find the error to be:

1136: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

I then went in and scrutinized my insertQuery arguments and there was a missing coma.

So now it works and I can move on to Part 4!