Mysqli query not working when variable inserted?

You are slapping a variable directly into a query. This is error prone (as you are discovering) and has a high risk that you'll fail to sufficiently sanitise it (and thus cause an SQL injection vulnerability).

If you put that query in a string and echo it, you can check what happens. There might be something wrong with that variable!

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