Can't insert into to my Database with PHP - php

Question

I want to insert some info into a table but it doesn't works. This is the code.
<?php
$con=mysql_connect("localhost","Chew","*****","Birthdays");
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$Name="Something";
$Desc="Something";
$Lang="En";
$D="1";
$M="1";
echo "<br>";
$sql = "INSERT INTO `Birthdays` (Name, Description, Language, Day, Month) VALUES ('".$Name."', '".$Desc."', '".$Lang."', '".$D."', '".$M."' );";
$qr= mysql_query($con, $sql) or die("Error: " . mysql_error());
mysql_close($con);
?>

Answer 1

MONTH and DAY are names of MySQL functions. If you are going to name columns with those names you must escape them with ticks:
$sql = "INSERT INTO `Birthdays` (Name, Description, Language, `Day`, `Month`) VALUES ('".$Name."', '".$Desc."', '".$Lang."', '".$D."', '".$M."' );";

Answer 2

read mysql_query
$qr= mysql_query($sql, $con) or die("Error: " . mysql_error());
NB: mysql_* is deprecated, use mysqli_* or pdo

Answer 3

If D and M are numbers, your SQL should not use quotes (') in the VALUES-part of your SQL

Answer 4

You should be using Object Oriented mechanism for doing connection with MySQL with the help of MySQLi class
example
// The var's in complete caps means they might be defined as constant variable
// DB_HOST - database hostname
// DB_USER - database user
// DB_PASS - database password
// DB_NAME - database instance name
$db = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME);
if($db -> connect_error){
// in case there are errors
die("Connect Error (" . $db -> connect_errno . ") " . $db -> connect_error);
}
$Name= mysql_real_escape_string("Something"); // helps to escape special characters like quotes
$Desc= mysql_real_escape_string("Something");
$Lang="En";
$D="1";
$M="1";
$sql = "INSERT INTO `Birthdays` (Name, Description, Language, `Day`, `Month`) VALUES ('".$Name."', '".$Desc."', '".$Lang."', $D, $M );";
$db -> query($sql) or die("Error: " . $db -> error_msg);
echo "Insert id: " . $db -> insert_id;
EDIT: Code to fetch data from database
C_Chewbacc,
I would recommend you on reading more on PHP-MySQL connection using Object Oriented mechanism
http://in2.php.net/mysqli
Try this code below
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Birthdays";
$result = $db -> query($sql); // SELECT query returns result object here
// We iterate over this result object and fetch each row on every iteration
// When the resultant object has nothing to return, NULL is initialised in $row
// When $row = NULL becomes the exit point of WHILE loop
while($row = $db -> fetch_array($result)){
var_dump($row); // This will display every row of data
}