Re: trying to insert values into my table for first time

[Peter Brawley]

> I don't know what type of error handling those lines need

For example execute() returns T or F, you need to track which.

One way: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysqli-report.php

When you can't figure out what's going wrong with your generated sql, have your script echo the sql it's generated, and play with it in the mysql client program.