[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
[quote author="CIfan1000" date="1225002905"]
I fear my code may be amateurish..[/quote]
Right! I was just going to say...
Your code looks fine, and I want to especially thank you for putting out the effort to try. You're doing very well.
But... I can't duplicate your error.
Let's make sure this the data type for the user_data column is, in fact, TEXT type. Then it will be helpful to know which version of MySQL you're using.
As a side note, you cannot set a default value in your table definition for TEXT datatype.
Randy