PHP Insert

Question

I have been working on this function – the idea is to read the meta tags – find the description – then insert the description in a db table.
I got the first two parts working – but cannot get the description to insert.  I think I might need to do something to the array – i.e. addslashes or something – but, everything I try it does not seem to work.  The odd thing is that I can echo the description ($value) but cannot insert it.
function getSiteMeta($description){
   $tags = get_meta_tags($description);
   if(sizeof($tags)==0){
                        echo 'No Description Found';
   foreach($tags as $key=>$value) {
                        if($key!=description) {
                        unset ($value);
                        else
                        mysql_query("INSERT INTO page (page_description) VALUES ($value)");
                        echo $value;
Can someone provide a little guidance – please.

Answer 1

The obvious thing that's wrong with your original code is that $value needs to be in single quotes in the SQL query.
mysql_query("INSERT INTO page (page_description) VALUES ('$value')");