Insert Data to Mysql Through Nodejs - mysql

Question

I am trying to insert data into the MySQL user table through node js, I am using
and following
https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql#escaping-query-values
Below is my code, I don't really know what went wrong, I couldn't insert data through postData query, but it works if I try to execute the test query.
Why isn't the postData query working?
var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host : 'localhost',
port : 3306,
database : 'csc309',
user : 'root',
password : 'root'
});
connection.connect();
var postData = {username: 'user4',
firstname: 'first',
lastname: 'last',
password: 'password',
email: 'test2#email.com'};
/*
var test = connection.query('INSERT INTO user (username, firstname, lastname, password, email) VALUES
("user4", "first", "last", "password", "sdfsdf#hotmail.com")');
*/
var query = connection.query('INSERT INTO user VALUES ?', postData, function(err, result) {
console.log('The solution is: ', result);
});
Here is my user sql user table.
create table user (
id int AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
username varchar(40) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
firstname varchar(40) NOT NULL,
lastname varchar(40) NOT NULL,
password varchar(100) NOT NULL,
created_at datetime NOT NULL,
email varchar(40) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
reputation int DEFAULT 0,
mailing_address varchar(100),
phone varchar(20),
gender varchar(10),
admin tinyint default 0 NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Answer 1

If you want to insert a row with explicitly specified values passing an object to a escaped query, you should use the INSERT ... SET form:
var query = connection.query('INSERT INTO user SET ?', postData, function(err, result) {
console.log('The solution is: ', result);
});
The resulting query will look like:
INSERT INTO user SET `username` = 'user4', `firstname` = 'first', `lastname` = 'last', `password` = 'password', `email` = 'test2#email.com'