CodeIgniter not properly inserting sql data - php

Question

$idgen = uniqid(rand(), false);
$churchName = $this->input->post('church_name');
$streetAddress = $this->input->post('street_address');
$locationalCity = $this->input->post('locational_city');
$locationalState = $this->input->post('locational_state');
$locationalZip = $this->input->post('locational_zip');
$locationalCountry = $this->input->post('locational_country');
$taxNum = $this->input->post('tax_exemption_number');**
$this->db->query("INSERT INTO church_repo (church_name, street_address, locational_address, locational_zip, locational_country, locational_city, overseer_account_id, tax_exemption_number, status) VALUES('{$churchName}', '{$streetAddress}', '{$locationalCity}', '{$idgen}', '{$locationalState}', '{$locationalZip}', '{$locationalCountry}', '{$taxNum}', 'pending')");
The code above isn't inserting correctly, in Ci I'm getting the following error:
Error Number: 1054Unknown column 'locational_address' in 'field
list'INSERT INTO church_repo (church_name, street_address,
locational_address, locational_zip, locational_country,
locational_city, overseer_account_id, tax_exemption_number, status)
VALUES('bgtg', 'ff', 'rgfr', '270284f1eec6e5bfd4', 'rgrd', 'bdtbdt',
'United States of America', '84894894894', 'pending')Filename:
C:\Workspace\htdocs\Jan-2012\Gospel-links.org\system\database\DB_driver.phpLine
Number: 330

Answer 1

check your table attribute names, that error means that "locational_address" doesn't exist in your table. may be just a typo

Answer 2

The error is self-explanatory: there's no "locational_address" field, as already pointed out by d2byrke, so you should start by checking that.
Might be "street_address", maybe?
As an addendum, you're not escaping the values you enter in your DB; use query bindings, if you don't want to use Active Record:
$churchName = $this->input->post('church_name');
$streetAddress = $this->input->post('street_address');
$locationalCity = $this->input->post('locational_city');
$locationalState = $this->input->post('locational_state');
$locationalZip = $this->input->post('locational_zip');
$locationalCountry = $this->input->post('locational_country');
$taxNum = $this->input->post('tax_exemption_number');
$sql = "INSERT INTO church_repo(church_name, street_address, locational_address, locational_zip, locational_country, locational_city, overseer_account_id, tax_exemption_number, status) VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)";
$this->db->query($sql, array($churchName,$streetAddress,$locationalCity,$locationalState,$locationalZip,$locationalChurch,$taxnum,'pending');
Or, even cleaner (and protected) with Active Record:
$field['church_name'] = $this->input->post('church_name');
$field['street_address'] = $this->input->post('street_address');
$field['locational_city'] = $this->input->post('locational_city');
$field['locational_state'] = $this->input->post('locational_state');
$field['locational_zip'] = $this->input->post('locational_zip');
$field['locational_country'] = $this->input->post('locational_country');
$field['tax_exemption_num'] = $this->input->post('tax_exemption_number');
$field['status'] = 'pending';
$field['overseer_account_id'] = 'value here';
$this->db->insert('church_repo', $field);
Where $field is an array with table names as index, and field values as value.

Answer 3

You need to be sanitizing/escaping that content you are inserting. If there is a ' or something else you'll hit an error. Make sure your DB really does contain locational_address. Copy/paste to make sure no typos.
I would consider changing to this, it's much easier to read and follow whats happening. And the data is properly escaped then.
$data = array(
'church_name' => $this->input->post('church_name'),
'street_address' => $this->input->post('street_address'),
.....
'tax_exemption_number' => $this->input->post('tax_exemption_number')
);
$this->db->insert('church_repo', $data);

Answer 4

Try this just changed the order or insert to mach with column
$idgen = uniqid(rand(), false);
$churchName = $this->input->post('church_name');
$streetAddress = $this->input->post('street_address');
$locationalCity = $this->input->post('locational_city');
$locationalState = $this->input->post('locational_state');
$locationalZip = $this->input->post('locational_zip');
$locationalCountry = $this->input->post('locational_country');
$taxNum = $this->input->post('tax_exemption_number');**
$this->db->query("INSERT INTO church_repo (church_name, street_address, locational_address, locational_zip, locational_country, locational_city, overseer_account_id, tax_exemption_number, status) VALUES('{$churchName}', '{$streetAddress}', '{$locationalCity}', '{$locationalZip}', '{$locationalState}', '{$locationalCountry}', '{$idgen}', '{$taxNum}', 'pending')");