PHP - Search Mysql With Checkbox Array

Hello,

I have been spending over 6 hours trying to square this away and I have looked at some tutorials from PHPFreaks... Maybe I'm missing something.

Basically I rebuilding the form from bottom up and I thought some check boxes would be easier for some part of the form instead of drop-down menu.

Basically this form is submitting query to MySQL:

article_add.php (Basically has the form)
article_insert.php (Basically insert the data to MySQL)

Here is one part of the form where the check box is located:

Here is article_add.php

<form action="article_insert.php" method="post">
<-- 
OTHER INPUT BOXES
-->
<div class="inputfieldtb"><label for="news_cat">News Categories:</label>
    <?
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";

$counter = 1;
                            while ($nc = mysql_fetch_array($news_cats)) {
$ncat_id = $nc['ncat_id'];
$ncat_name = $nc['ncat_label'];

echo "<td><div><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"category[]\" value=\"$ncat_id\" ''/>$ncat_name</div></td>\n";

if (($counter % 4) == 0) {
echo "</tr><tr>";
}
$counter ++;
}
echo "</tr></table>";
                            echo "<br />";
?>
    </div>
<-- 
MORE FORMS
-->
</form>



Here is article_insert.php



// CONNECT TO DATABASE
include("../mods/connect.php");

<--- 
OTHER DATA INSERT IN MYSQL
-->

$news_cat = mysql_real_escape_string(implode(',', $_POST['category'])); // <-- Checkbox Data

<--- 
MORE DATA INSERT IN MYSQL
-->

$query = "INSERT INTO news_articles VALUES ('<--- MORE CONTENT BEING INSERT INTO MYSQL -->,'$news_cat','$news_content',<--- MORE CONTENT BEING INSERT INTO MYSQL -->'')";
mysql_query($query) or die ('Error inserting new data into the data to the database: ' . mysql_error() . '');


The error I'm getting is "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '','','3','0','','','')' at line 1";


So what am I doing wrong? 

Once I get this resolved, I would like to learn how to display the checkbox / updated the checkbox as well.

Thank you in advance for your time and your help with this problem.

So I've spent 2 days now searching the web on how to make my checkbox array on my form insert the value selected by the user into my database. Here is the code that I've written. All fields except for the checkbox array works fine.

<?php virtual('/budgets/Connections/connAdmin.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
{
  if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
  }

  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;   
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}
 
 
  if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $workStyle = $_POST['art_photos'];

    // Setting up a blank variable to be used in the coming loop.
    $allStyles = "";

    // For every checkbox value sent to the form.
    foreach ($workStyle as $style) {
      // Append a string called $allStyles with the current array element, and then add a comma and a space at the end.
      $allStyles .= $style . ", ";
    }

    // Delete the last two characters from the string.
    $allStyles = substr($allStyles, 0, -2);

    echo "<p>The resulting string is: <strong>$allStyles</strong></p>\r\n";

  }



if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO daily_budget (rundate, slug, reporter, budgetInfo, notes, `section`, deadline, art_photos sidebar, sBudget) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['rundate'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['slug'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['reporter'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['budgetInfo'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['notes'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['section'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['deadline'], "text"),
                  GetSQLValueString($_POST['art_photos'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['sidebar'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['sBudget'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_connAdmin, $connAdmin);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $connAdmin) or die(mysql_error());
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Budget Record</title>

</head>

<body>
<?php
if (isset($error)) {
   echo '<ul>';
   foreach($error as $alert) {
      echo "<li class='warning'>$alert</li>\n";
   }
   echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" method="POST" name="form1" id="form1">
  <table align="center" width="60%" border="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td width="14%" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><STRONG>Rundate:</STRONG></td>
      <td width="86%">
        <input type="text" name="rundate" size="30" value="" id="jQueryUICalendar2"/>
        <script type="text/javascript">
// BeginWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar2").datepicker();

// EndWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
              </script></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><STRONG>Section:</STRONG></td>
      <td>
        <select name="section">
        <option value=""></option>
          <option value="A1">A1</option>
          <option value="Pickup All">Pickup All</option>
          <option value="Region">Region</option>
          <option value="Atlantic">Atlantic</option>
            <option value="Business">Business</option>
          <option value="Features">Features</option>
          <option value="Sports">Sports</option>
        </select>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Slug:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
      <input type="text" name="slug" value="" size="32" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">REQUIRED</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Budget Information:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
        <textarea name="budgetInfo" cols="50" rows="4"></textarea>
<span class="textareaRequiredMsg">Required.</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Notes:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="notes" value="" size="32" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Reporter:</strong></td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield3">
        <input type="text" name="reporter" value="" size="32" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Required.</span></span><span style="color: #F00; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px;"></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Deadline:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="deadline" size="30" value="Enter date" id="jQueryUICalendar1"/><script type="text/javascript">
// BeginWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar1").datepicker();

// EndWebWidget jQuery_UI_Calendar: jQueryUICalendar2
              </script> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Artwork:</strong></td>
      <td><label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="factbox" id="art_photos_0"  />
          Factbox</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="graphic" id="art_photos_1" />
          Graphic</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="photo" id="art_photos_2" />
          Photo</label>
       
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="art_photos[]" value="video" id="art_photos_3"  />
          Video</label>
      <br /></td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
       
    </tr>
       <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">      <strong>Sidebar:</strong></td>
      <td valign="baseline"><span id="spryradio2">
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="sidebar" value="y" id="sidebar_0" />
          Yes</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="sidebar" value="n" id="sidebar_1" />
          No</label>
        <br />
        <span class="radioRequiredMsg"><strong style="font-size: 11px">REQUIRED.</strong></span></span>
       
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right"><strong>Sidebar Information:</strong></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="sBudget" value="" size="32" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="baseline">
      <td nowrap="nowrap" align="right">&nbsp;</td>
      <td><input type="submit" value="Insert record" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1" />
</form>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3><a href="/new_budget/admin/manage_budgets.php"><strong>View your budget entry, make changes or delete your budget.</strong></a></h3>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar1").datepicker();
jQuery("#jQueryUICalendar2").datepicker();
var sprytextfield2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield2", "none", {maxChars:15, validateOn:["change"]});
var sprytextarea1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextarea("sprytextarea1", {validateOn:["change"]});
var sprytextfield3 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield3");
var spryradio2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationRadio("spryradio2");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

Need some help I have 2 tables in a database and I need to search the first table and use the results from that search, to search another table, can this be done? and if it can how would you recommend that I go about it?

Thanks For Your Help Guys!