Php,MySql Sending Query To Database - php

Question

http://jsfiddle.net/Fd9wx/
I made this to help solve my problem
so I have some php code and html code that should send sql Query's to the database upon the html table I have created like to set up new databases but then I fill out my form and click run it does not want to work for me. I did some google research and got nothing back now before you say "use PDO and This is no longer supported" PDO is hard for me to use because I dont understand some of it I will use it later on but not now, also I did make this script here from hand so dont say "contact script dev" if some one could point me in right direction to solving my problem or just way to make my sql errors show in my script? like the line what to remove and all
here is main part of my script
$tablename=$_POST['tablename'];
$value=$_POST['value'];
$type=$_POST['type'];
$length=$_POST['length'];
$collation=$_POST['collation'];
$attributes=$_POST['attributes'];
$null=$_POST['null'];
$extra=$_POST['extra'];
// Insert data into mysql
$sql="CREATE TABLE `a7972613_db`.`$tablename` (
`field1` $type( $length ) $null $extra
) ENGINE = MYISAM";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
// if successfully insert data into database, displays message "Successful".
if($result){
echo "Successful";
}
else {
echo "Please Go Back And Check Your Errors!";
}
thats my main part

Answer 1

The problem with your code is you have not selected the database.
$host = "xxxxx";
$database = "xxxxx";
$user = "xxxx";
$password = "xxxxx";
// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$user", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
Use below code for selecting database
// Connect to server and select database.
$conn = mysql_connect("$host", "$user", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db($database,$conn);
and another problem is when your query fails, you have hardcoded the error,but use below code for checking where is the problem in your query
$result=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

Answer 2

Change your query to
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Error with $sql: " . mysql_error());
with mysql_error(), you will see what your problem is.
You can dump your $sql string in order to see, whether it is correct
echo $sql;