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<html>
<head>
<title>Upload</title>
</head>
<body>

    <form action="action.php" method="post">

        <fieldset class="first">
             Name:
        <input type="text" name="author" />
        Heading:
          <input type="text" name="heading" />

        Text:
        <textarea type="text" name="thecontent"> </textarea>
        </fieldset>


        <fieldset>
        <input type="submit"/>
            </fieldset>
    </form>


</body>
</html>

<html>
<head>

<title>Send!</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php

 ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL);

$link = mysql_connect('localhost','name','pasword')
or die ("Unable to connect");

$mydb = mysql_select_db('the_database',$link)
or die ("No database found");

$author = $_POST['author'];
$heading = $_POST['heading'];
$thecontent = $_POST['thecontent'];

$mysql_query="INSERT INTO articles ('heading', 'author', 'content')
 VALUES ('$heading','$author','$thecontent')" or die(mysql_error());

echo "This was send: $author $heading $thecontent <br> ";


 mysql_close()

?>

</body>
</html>

<html>
<head>

<title>Send!</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php

 ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL);
$DB_HOST = 'localhost';
$DB_USER = '**';
$DB_PASS = '***';
$DB_NAME = '***';
@ $db = new mysqli($DB_HOST, $DB_USER, $DB_PASS, $DB_NAME);
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo 'Error.';
exit();
}

$author = $_POST['author'];
$heading = $_POST['heading'];
$thecontent = $_POST['thecontent'];

$query = 'INSERT INTO articles ('heading', 'author', 'content')
 VALUES ('$heading','$author','$thecontent')';

$result = $db->query($query);
    if ($result) {
    echo $db->affected_rows."This was added.";
    }
    else {
    echo "somethings gone very wrong.";
    }

$db->close();


?>

</body>
</html>

$mysql_query="INSERT INTO articles    ('heading', 'author', 'content')
 VALUES ('$heading','$author','$thecontent')";
mysql_query($mysql_query);
//required to run the query..

And mysql_close(); // missing :p