Submitting HTML data to a google App Engine MySQL database using PHP - php

Question

I have been trying to create a simple web form that will be used to submit data to a Google App Engine database that uses MySQL. The database is connecting fine and the try catch statement seems to be working properly. The problem is that when i click the submit button, the data is not being committed into the database. Any help would be much appreciated, I'm sure there is just some small error that i am overlooking.
HTML form
<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" action="connection.php" method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="patientName" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Patient Name</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="Name" class="form-control" id="patientName" name="patientName">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="Address1" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Address 1</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" rows='3' id="Address1" name="Address1"></input>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="Address2" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Address 2</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" rows='3' id="Address2" name="Address2"></input>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="Address3" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Address 3</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" rows='3' id="Address3" name="Address3"></input>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="postCode" class="col-sm-2 control-label">PostCode</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="postCode" name="postCode">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="symptoms" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Symptoms</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<textarea type="text" class="form-control" rows='5' id="symptoms" name="symptoms"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="contactNumber" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Contact Number</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="Tel" class="form-control" id="contactNumber" name="contactNumber">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Log Call Details</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
PHP connection file
<?php
use google\appengine\api\users\User;
use google\appengine\api\users\UserService;
try {
$db = new pdo('mysql:host=111.111.111.11:3306;dbname=MyDB',
'root',
'password'
);
$patientName = $_POST["patientName"];
$address1 = $_POST["Address1"];
$address2 = $_POST["Address2"];
$address3 = $_POST["Address3"];
$postCode = $_POST["postCode"];
$symptoms = $_POST["symptoms"];
$contactNumber = $_POST["contactNumber"];
$sql = "INSERT INTO patient (patientName, patientAddress1, patientAddress2, patientAddress3, patientPostcode, PatientSymptoms, patientPhoneNumber)
VALUES ($patientName, $address1, $address2, $address3, $postCode, $symptoms, $contactNumber)";
$db->execute($sql);
} catch (PDOException $ex) {
echo "Could not connect to the database.";
exit;
}
$db = null;
echo "Woo-hoo!";
?>
I should probably also mention that the HTML page is using bootstrap.

Answer 1

You can try this code snippet below, It works, I did not used $_POST data but hard-coded values, Hope it helps !
more infos:
http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepare.php
$username="test12";
$role="test1";
$sql = "INSERT INTO test (username, role) VALUES (:username, :role)";
$conn = new pdo('mysql:host=127.0.0.1:3306;dbname=home',
'root',
'password'
);
$q = $conn->prepare($sql);
$q->execute(array(':username'=>$username, ':role'=>$role));