Insert current date/time using now() in a field using MySQL/PHP

Question

Since MySQL evidently cannot automatically insert the function now() in a datetime field in adding new records like some other databases, based on comments, I\'m explicitly tryi

Answer 1

You forgot to close the mysql_query command:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (first, last, whenadded) VALUES ('$first', '$last', now())");

Note that last parentheses.