extreme newbie questions. please help

[mdcloud]

hey everyone. i am trying to set up a news form for a client. i have used php before, but in a very limited way with help of others. this is the first time out on my own trying to use it. what i need is first how to send information from a html for over to a database. i have looked at a couple tutorials and dont seem to be getting it right. i have a database called newsbd and a table called news with three fields set up. my fields are ID which is set to autoincrement, title, and news. seems like i need coding like this on the php part but it didnt do anything

<?php
$title=$_POST['title']; 
$news=$_POST['news'];  
mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_select_db("newsdb") or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `news` VALUES ('$title', '$news')"); 
Print "Your information has been successfully added to the database."; 
?>

can anyone please straighten me out. i would appreciate it.

[thetestingsite]

The only thing I can see is this line:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `news` VALUES ('$title', '$news')");

needs to be this:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `news` VALUES (null, '$title', '$news')");

or:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `news` (`title`,`news`) VALUES ('$title', '$news')");

Hope this helps.