Query Not Inserting Into Database - MySQL

Question

Problem

So, the user has to input a team's leader_id , and the user can input up to 6 student_id . My problem is that the data isn't being inserted into the database. The problem is under the comment PROBLEM .

So I first get the users input data, and I store the leader_id inside a separate variable and the student_id 's inside an array. Next, I loop through the student_id and check if the user did not input anything in the student_id field, then insert the leader_id . But if the user did input 1 or more student_id 's , then I looped trough the array and stored the inputs that had a value in them. Then I inserted the data into the database.

Teams Database (EMPTY)

team_id | leader_id | student_id

PHP Code

<?php 

error_reporting(0);
require '../../connect.php';

$leader_id = $_POST['leader_id'];
$students = array(
    $_POST['student_id_1'],
    $_POST['student_id_2'],
    $_POST['student_id_3'],
    $_POST['student_id_4'],
    $_POST['student_id_5'],
    $_POST['student_id_6'],
);

$student_save = array();

if(!empty($leader_id)) {

    foreach ($students as $student) {

        if(isset($student)) {
            array_push($student_save, $student);
        } else {
            $insert = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO teams (leader_id) VALUES ('$leader_id')");

            header("Location: ../../../admin.php?message=Success!");

            break;
        }

    }

    foreach ($student_save as $student) {
        // PROBLEM
        $insert = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO teams ($leader_id, $student_id) VALUES ($leader_id, $student)");

        if($insert) {
            header("Location: ../../../admin.php?message=Sorry we ran into an error");
        } else {
            header("Location: ../../../admin.php?message=Success!");
        }
    }

} else if(empty($leader_id)){
    header("Location: ../../../admin.php?message=There must be a leader");
}

?>

If you have any question, please ask me.

Answer 1

The problem was this:

$insert = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO teams ($leader_id, $student_id) VALUES ($leader_id, $student)");

There was a dollar sign in the INSERT

It should've been:

$insert = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO teams (leader_id, student_id) VALUES ($leader_id, $student)");