Form and MySQL problem. No, not register_globals-related :)

[Anonymous]

you can't insert every kind of character Some chars you have to escape before inserting into yur database

 

[Oleg Butuzov]

little corections... can you tell us what do get when run thi script?

if(isset($do_post)) 
        { 
        mysql_query("INSERT INTO forum (name,contents,user,mid) VALUES ('$p_name','$p_contents','$p_user','$p_mid')") or die(mysql_error()); 
      header("Location: $PHP_SELF"); 
        }