Database error when posting

FYI:
I am having the same error, see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53693

System used:
– WP 2.0
– Windows XP
– Apache 2.0.55
– PHP 5.1.1 (module)
– MySQL 5.0.17

Regards,
Michael

It’s probably a compatibility issue with MySQL 5.x

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52753?replies=10
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54487?replies=6

I think I may be having a related problem, although it doesn’t seem to matter whether I click save or post first.

I posted this morning with no problem and I am trying to post again and get this message: http://www.divaknitting.com/blog/wp-admin/post.php 65.29.203.219 /blog/wp-admin/post.php http://www.divaknitting.com Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 403

The only thing I’ve done differently was cut and paste the text from word. I used the html window since there were links etc in code form. I am trying to change the timestamp to date it for monday, so I don’t know if that could be the problem or not.

Apparently I too am having same or similar problems as delineated above. My issue comes into play when I click the “save and continue editing” or the “save” button in the “Write” section of the Admin Panel. The “Post” button works completely fine. Danny’s suggestion above did ameliorate the problem.

My site is running with PHP 5, MySQL 5, and IIS 6. Here’s the error I get:
WordPress database error: [Incorrect datetime value: '' for column 'post_date' at row 1]
INSERT INTO wp_posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_content_filtered, post_title, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password, post_name, to_ping, pinged, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_parent, menu_order, post_mime_type) VALUES ('1', '', '', 'Test', '', 'Test', '', 'draft', 'open', 'closed', '', '', '', '', '', '', '0', '0', '')

WordPress database error: [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 '' at line 3]
SELECT category_id FROM wp_post2cat WHERE post_id =

WordPress database error: [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 ' 1)' at line 2]
INSERT INTO wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES (, 1)

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at E:Websitesinterstellar-travel.comwwwrootwp-includeswp-db.php:102) in E:Websitesinterstellar-travel.comwwwrootwp-adminpost.php on line 59

Hopefully the folks with get this version compatible with the latest version of MySQL.
v/r,
Tom

WordPress does not require $post_date or $post_date_gmt to be set if the status of the post is ‘draft’. The problem is the database doesn’t distinguish between post types and will not accept an empty value. Simply removing if ( 'draft' != $post_status ) from within the if statements that set the $post_date and $post_date_gmt variables solves the problem. After the change, regardless of the post status, the timestamps are created and stored.

The file that needs changed is functions-post.php found in the wp-includes folder. Hope that helps.

Ryan