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I am currently experiencing a problem passing data from a PHP page to
PostgreSQL.

 I am passing different data types like numeric, and text.  Let me show you
some of the code I am using....

This is the code that I am using to pass the input data to a page called
"checkbook2.php"

<form action="checkbook2.php" method="GET">
  <p align="center">Check Date
    <input type="text" name="check_date" VALUE="">
    Check Number
    <input type="text" name="check_number" VALUE="">
    Check Payee
    <input type="text" name="check_payee" VALUE="">
    Check Amount
    <input type="text" name="check_amount" VALUE="">
  </p>
  <p align="center">Check Transaction Type
    <input type="text" name="check_trans_type" VALUE="">
  </p>
  <input type=submit value="Add New Entry">
  </form>

This is the data from the checkbook2.php that talks to the PostgreSQL
Server.  It is running version 7.2.

$conn=pg_connect("host=192.168.0.2 user=postgres password=postgres
dbname=checkbook");

@$sql="INSERT INTO checking VALUES('$check_date', '$check_num',
'$check_pay', '$check_amount', '$check_trans_type');";

$result=pg_exec($conn, $sql);

check_data is type text
check_num is type int4
check_pay is type text
check_amount is type numeric(8,2)
check_trans_type is type text

The error that comes up is ...
Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: Bad numeric input format
'check_trans_type' in /etc/httpd/htdocs/checkbook2.php on line 41

Anyone know what could be going on here??  Please let me know, thanks in
advance! :)