Taking data from one table and inserting it into another MySQL

Question

I currently have a code of:

UPDATE graph AS s
JOIN (SELECT Player, (Score) AS newscore
  FROM scores
  GROUP BY Player) AS d
JOIN (SELECT Player, (Player) AS newplayer
  FROM scores
  GROUP BY Player) AS e
JOIN (SELECT curdate()) AS q
insert into s ( s.Score, s.Player, s.Date) values ( newplayer, newscore, q);

What I am trying to do is take data from one table and put it into the other.

The first table "graph" is where I want new data put into, it has three fields:

Date Score Player

The second table "scores" is where I want to take the data from, it has many fields but only two are of importance for this:

Player Score

I want to take the data of the current day (Player and Score) and create a new line inside of "graph" using Player Score and CURDATE.

anyone know what I can do to make my code work? or maybe have a better idea for my code?

Thank you.

-edit-

Data in scores table

dem0n123 1220
Mordrah 1236
extcy 1245

What I want the new data in the graph table to look like

dem0n123 1220 2013-12-03
Mordrah 1236 2013-12-03
extcy 1245 2013-12-03

Answer 1

You could use something like this:

SQL Fiddle

CREATE TABLE scores
    (`name` varchar(25), `value` int)
;

INSERT INTO scores
    (`name`, `value`)
VALUES
    ('dem0n123', 1220),
    ('Mordrah', 1236),
    ('extcy', 1245)
;

CREATE TABLE graph
  (`name` varchar(25), 
   `value` int, 
   `mydate` DateTime);


insert into graph (name, value, mydate)
select name,value, CURDATE() from scores

select name,value,mydate from graph