[RESOLVED (thanks)] Strange PHP/MYSQL problem?

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I am having a really difficult time figuring out a problem I am having.

I am trying to help a friend with his website, and on one of the pages I need to add a record to a database.

I run the query with mysql

print $query;
$result = mysql_query($query, $conn) or die(mysql_error()); 

and it dies without showing me what the problem was.

I figured it might have been my query, so I opened up the phpmyadmin for the webserver and pasted the exact query posted and it saves just fine.

I thought there might be a problem with my host/name/password or something so I copied over it with one from a query I know works and I get the same issue.

Has anyone encountered a problem where they could select data, but run into problems while adding? And, the page does NOT display any mysql_error() like it does with all the select statements if there is a problem. Is there a special thing I could put in the die() that actually will show me the error for an insert statement?

Thanks in advance