PHP and MySQL posting system - php

Question

Okay, Here's my problem. I am trying to make a posting script for my website. However this script is not working; the script is below:
<?php
// Make sure the user is logged in before going any further.
if (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) {
echo '<p class="login">Please log in to access this page.</p>';
exit();
}
else {
echo('<p class="login">You are logged in as ' . $_SESSION['username'] . '. Log out.</p>');
}
// Connect to the database
$dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Grab the profile data from the POST
$post1 = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc, trim($_POST['post1']));
$query = "INSERT INTO ccp2_posts ('post') VALUES ('$post1')";
$error = false;
mysqli_close($dbc);
?>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<legend>Posting</legend>
<label for="post">POST:</label>
<textarea rows="4" name="post1" id="post" cols="50">Write your post here...</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</div>
<?php
include ("include/footer.html");
?>
</body>
</html>
Nothing shows up in the database when I submit the form. Help would be amazing. Thanks.

Answer 1

You haven't executed the query. All you've done is opened a connection, defined the query string and closed the connection.
Add:
if(msyqli_query($dbc, $query)) {
// Successful execution of insert query
} else {
// Log error: mysqli_error($dbc)
}
after this line:
$query = "INSERT INTO ccp2_posts ('post') VALUES ('$post1')";
Update:
Started editing but had to leave... As other answerers have pointed you need to either quote the post column with a backick or remove the single quote that you currently have altogether. The only case where you need to use backticks to escape identifiers that are one of the MySQL Reserved Words.
So the working version of your query would be:
$query = "INSERT INTO ccp2_posts (post) VALUES ('$post1')";

Answer 2

You may have other problems, but your SQL is bad. You can't use single quotes around 'post'. You want backticks or nothing:
INSERT INTO ccp2_posts(post) VALUES ('$post1')

Answer 3

You missed
mysqli_query($dbc,$query);
In your code,
$query = "INSERT INTO ccp2_posts ('post') VALUES ('$post1')";
mysqli_query($dbc,$query);

Answer 4

Your query is not quite right:
$query = "INSERT INTO `ccp2_posts` (`post`) VALUES ('$post1')";
Note that those are backticks `, not single-quotes. This is very important! Backticks are used to name databases, tables and column names, and in particular it means you don't have to remember the extensive list of every single reserved word. You could call your column `12345 once I caught a fish alive!` if you want to!
Anyway, more importantly, you aren't actually running your query!
mysqli_query($dbc,$query);

Answer 5

You are not submiting to the database using, for example, the mysql_query() function.