I am very green in Perl and MySQL, but need to get this working for a project at work. I am running NT 4 with IIS 4, running ActiveState Perl, and MySQL 3.23. I have a web from that is filling in a database - eventually I will be running reports against the data. I have been getting these errors consistently for the last two weeks:

syntax error at line 37, near "people values" Bad name after first_name' line 37.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. 

use Win32::ODBC;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs)
{
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}


print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD>\n";
print "<TITLE>Testing Database Code</TITLE>\n";
print "</HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY bgcolor=\"ffffcc\">\n";

$DSN="CodeTestMySQL";
if (!($db=new Win32::ODBC($DSN))) {
   print "Error connecting to $DSN\n";
   print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
}

else {
     print "Information being added to the University of Minnesota Fed
+eral Small Business Self-Certification Database.<br><br><br>\n";
}

$currentdate = &currentdate;
$SqlStatement = insert into people values('$FORM_DATA{'first_name'}','
+$FORM_DATA{'last_name'}','$currentdate');
  


sub currentdate {
  local $currentdate = $FORM_DATA{'year'}."-".$FORM_DATA{'month'}."-".
+$FORM_DATA{'day'};
  return $currentdate;
}


if ($db->Sql($SqlStatement)) {
   print "SQL failed.\n";
   print "Error: " . $db->Error() . "\n";
}

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Edit kudra, 2002-05-17 Added to title, added p

In reply to Syntax errors with Win32::ODBC? by CodeNewbie

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