sub updatetable_167 { warn("Entered updatetable_167"); my $kind = $query->param('kind'); my $searchterm = $query->param('searchterm'); my $result; warn("searchterm = '$searchterm'"); my $searchfield = ""; if ($kind == 0) { $searchfield = 'user_id'; } if ($kind == 1) { $searchfield = 'lastname'; } if ($kind == 2) { $searchfield = 'business'; } #Sort Index For The Three Kinds Of ORDER Supposed to be global. $sortindex = $kind; warn("sortindex = '$sortindex'"); warn("searchfield = '$searchfield'"); my $stmt = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE $searchfield = ? ORDER BY ? ASC"; warn("statement = '$stmt'"); my $sth = $dbh->prepare ($stmt) or die "Error Preparing:\n" . $stmt . "\nDBI returned: \n", $dbh->errstr; $sth->execute($searchterm, $searchfield) or die "Unable to execute query: " . $sth->errstr; # $sth->execute() or die "Unable to execute query: " . $sth->errstr; my $searchResult = $sth->fetchrow_hashref(); my $count = $sth->rows; warn("count = '$count'"); if ($count == 0) { warn("Failed Search: '$searchfield' equal to '$searchterm' "); my %searchFail = ( SearchError => $kind); my $json = JSON->new; $json->canonical(1); $json = encode_json(\%searchFail); print "Content-Type: application/json\n\n"; print $json; warn("Finished print 0 count $json"); exit(1); } #{"SearchError":0} Good else { warn("count = '$count'"); my $json = JSON->new; $json->canonical(1); $json = encode_json($searchResult); print "Content-Type: application/json\n\n"; print $json; warn("Finished print $json"); exit(0); } #### [Mon Mar 19 19:01:04 2018] update_tables.cgi: statement = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE lastname = ? ORDER BY ? ASC' at update_tables.cgi line 462. [Mon Mar 19 19:01:04 2018] update_tables.cgi: count = '1' at update_tables.cgi line 486. [Mon Mar 19 19:01:04 2018] update_tables.cgi: Finished print {"DD":"2018-01-30","DP":"2018-12-31","MD":"120.00","MJ":"2017-01-30","address1":"1345 Griffin Ave","address2":"$47","business":"ZI Inc","city":"Deluth","comments":"Another test at the Z enc","email":"tz@voyager.net","forename":"Adam","id":58,"lastname":"Zorky","password":"xxxxxx","phone_cell":"(517) 240-1004","phone_home":"(345) 247-1655","pin":null,"position":"General Member","state":"MN","user_id":2,"username":"bwm2","zip":"38456"} at update_tables.cgi line 492.