Function isn't writing to database?

Question

I'm trying to fetch some data from The Movie Database, using a library to insert results in a database locally using Xampp.

Here's what I have so far, I know it's dirty (globals in functions and such) but I'm running this locally - I just need it to write data to the DB if there is any valid data, or rerun the function if not.

require_once '../vendor/autoload.php';

$token  = new \Tmdb\ApiToken('My API Key - removed');
$client = new \Tmdb\Client($token);
$mid = 1;
$conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', '', 'test');
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
} 

moviedetails();

function moviedetails() {

    global $token;
    global $client;
    global $mid;
    global $conn;

    $repository = new \Tmdb\Repository\MovieRepository($client);
    $movie = $client->getMoviesApi()->getMovie($mid);

    var_dump($movie);

        $votecount = $movie['vote_count'];
        $voteaverage = $movie['vote_average'];
        $image = $movie['poster_path'];
        $releasedate = $movie['release_date'];
        $id = $movie['id'];
        $title = $movie['title'];
        $description = $movie['overview'];

        $sql = "INSERT INTO movie (votes, vote_average, poster, release_date, dbid, title, description)
        VALUES ('$votecount', '$voteaverage', '$image', '$releasedate', '$id', '$title', '$description')";

        echo $mid;

        $mid++;
        moviedetails();

}   

My script fails when $mid = 3, but hasn't written the other two valid entries to my database.

Answer 1

You are not actaully inserting to the database, you just have a query prepared to do it, there is no execution of that query.

You need $conn->query($sql) after your $sql = "query" .