Hello
Now this is very strange and way out of my knowledge-basis.
I had a working form (see code) which inserted data into eph_product.
Suddenly it stopped working and when I click on 'submit' I get the following error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 1

Here is the code (and I just can't see what to change to make it work. Most of the script is also exactly like some other scripts I have which are working)....If anyone can see the problem, it would really make me day :-)

<?php require_once('../Connections/erinpubl_localhost.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
  }

  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}

if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO eph_product (prod_id, prod_name, prod_level, prod_price, prod_status, image, thumbnail, prod_cover, prod_content, prod_exercise1, prod_exercise2) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, $s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_id'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_name'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_level'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_price'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_status'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['image'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['thumbnail'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_cover'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_content'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_exercise1'], "text"),
					   GetSQLValueString($_POST['prod_exercise2'], "text"));
					   
					   
					   

  mysql_select_db($database_erinpubl_localhost, $erinpubl_localhost);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $erinpubl_localhost) or die(mysql_error());
}

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Inserting Product Records</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Insert a New Product Record</p>
<table width="529" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>Please enter details of the new product, including full location URL of images.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="230"><form action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" method="post" name="form1" id="form1">
      <table align="left">
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">Product ID:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="prod_id" value="LEAVE BLANK" size="32" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">Prod_name:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="prod_name" value="" size="32" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">Prod_level:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="prod_level" value="lower case" size="32" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">Prod_price:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="prod_price" value="" size="32" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod_desc</td>
            <td><label for="prod_desc"></label>
            <textarea name="prod_desc" cols="50" id="prod_desc">
</textarea></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
          <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod_status:</td>
            <td><p>
              <label for="prod_status"></label>
              <select name="prod_status" id="prod_status">
                <option value="Available" selected="selected">Available Now</option>
                <option value="Coming Soon">Coming Soon</option>
                <option value="New">New</option>
              </select>
            </p></td>
          </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">image:</td>
            <td><input name="image" type="text" value="" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
          </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">thumbnail:</td>
            <td><input name="thumbnail" type="text" value="" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
          </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
             <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod_cover</td>
             <td><label for="cover"></label>
             <input name="cover" type="text" id="cover" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
           </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
             <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod__content</td>
             <td><label for="content"></label>
             <input name="content" type="text" id="content" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
           </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
             <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod_exercise1</td>
             <td><label for="exercise1"></label>
             <input name="exercise1" type="text" id="exercise1" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
           </tr>
           <tr valign="baseline">
             <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">prod_exercise2</td>
             <td><input name="exercise2" type="text" id="exercise2" value="" size="50" maxlength="80" /></td>
           </tr>
          <tr valign="baseline">
            <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">&nbsp;</td>
            <td><input type="submit" value="Insert record" /></td>
          </tr>
          </table>
        <p>
          <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1" />
        </p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
    </form>
    <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Can you show us what's in $insertSQL ?

I got the same error with an insert query..But it has solved now ,surely you might be missing ""/'' there.Double check $insertSQL..:)

Your right! In fact I use dreamweaver and found that the only way I could eventually fix this is to delete that part of the script and then use the inbuilt function to 'insert record'
Strange though :-)

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