php: form to database issues

[uesuva]

I'm having issues as well; I have a database jokes with a couple rows already and am trying to insert another row (the ID is auto incrementing). This is what I have, as you can see I'm trying to insert a value from a form.
Here's the form

<FORM ACTION="<?php echo($PHP_SELF); ?>" METHOD=POST>
<P>Type your joke here:<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME="joketext" ROWS=10 COLS=40 WRAP>
</TEXTAREA><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME="submitjoke" VALUE="SUBMIT">
</FORM>

and the php

$joketext = $_POST['joketext'
if ("SUBMIT" == $_POST['submitjoke']) {
  $sql = "INSERT INTO Jokes VALUES ($joketext, CURDATE())";
  if (mysql_query($sql)) {
    echo("<P>Your joke has been added.</P>");
  } else {
    echo("<P>Error adding submitted joke: " .
         mysql_error() . "</P>");
  }
}

It comes back with the error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2), what does that mean?

[kireol]

If that is all of your code, looks like you are missing the db connect and select

$conn = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
        mysql_select_db("database",$conn);

//and don't forget to close

mysql_close($conn);

[uesuva]

No, I thought that was just the code that was giving me issues; above it is:

$dbcnx = @mysql_connect("sql307.freei.me", "freei_3694379", "pass");
if (!$dbcnx) {
  echo( "<P>Unable to connect to the database server at this time.</P>" );
  exit();
}

// Select the BookStore database
mysql_select_db("freei_3694379_BookStore", $dbcnx);
if (! @mysql_select_db("freei_3694379_BookStore") ) {
  echo( "<P>Unable to locate the BookStore database at this time.</P>" );
  exit();
}

// Request the text of all the jokes
    $result = mysql_query(
              "SELECT JokeText FROM Jokes");
    if (!$result) {
      echo("<P>Error performing query: " .
           mysql_error() . "</P>");
      exit();
    }

      // Display the text of each joke in a paragraph
    while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {
      echo("<P>" . $row["JokeText"] . "</P>");
    }

I'm using the bookstore database because I think the free account I'm experimenting on only allows one database. And the select statement, etc is working just fine, so that confuses me even more.