What it actually does is nothing. I can do the database insert, which gives no errors, and appears to be successful, but when I query the database to get the data, the resulting variable is empty.

Click the database you want to use to insert data. Type the MySQL insert statement that inserts the characters, placing a backslash in front of any commas or quotes.

The "action" attribute tells the form to send the data to a script named "info.php," and "method" describes the type of action to be performed once the information is passed to the script.

I’ll work with MySQL on Ubuntu Server 18.04. Creating a database The first thing to do is to create a database. I’m going to demonstrate by creating a database called TECHREPUBLIC.