I have been working on setting up the environment for my term project for quite a few hours and now that I finally got it working, my cgi won't insert the data into the database. I can do all database functions within a terminal without any problems, and when I execute this script I get the "data submitted" screen. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(standard);
use DBI();
use DBD::mysql;
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

my $q = CGI->new;

my $name = $q->param('name');
my $day = $q->param('day');
my $number = $q->param('number');

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:oncall','webuser','password')
    or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
    $dbh->do('INSERT INTO users (name, day, phone) VALUES($name, $day,
+ $number)');

    #Disconnecting from database
    $dbh->disconnect();

  print $q->header,
  $q->h1('you submitted the new user!'),
  $q->end_html;

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In reply to MySql in cgi by Chaotic Jarod

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