Hi all,

I am having great difficulties in getting my script to work with perl/mysql. I am no Guru but basically I am making a registration page for my users and the script just takes their details and inputs them into the mysql DB. I am getting the following error 

DBI quote: invalid number of parameters: handle + 0 Usage: $h->quote($
+string [, $data_type ]) at usersetup2.cgi line 360.

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Here is the snippet of code which is affected, 

my ($nickname, $pass1, $firstname, $lastname, $email, $imtype, $imid, 
+$info, $country, $homepage) = (.
   $nickname = $dbh->quote(param('username')),.
   $pass1 = $dbh->quote(param('password1')),
   $firstname = $dbh->quote(param('firstname')),
   $lastname = $dbh->quote(param('lastname')),
   $email = $dbh->quote(param('email')),
   $imtype = $dbh->quote(param('imtype')),
   $imid = $dbh->quote(param('imid')),
   $info = $dbh->quote(param('info')),
   $country = $dbh->quote(param('country')),
   $homepage = $dbh->quote(param('homepage'))
);

# Query the database.
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "INSERT INTO member (nickname, password, firs
+t_name, last_name, email, country, homepage, im_type, im_id, info) VA
+LUES ($nickname, $pass1, $firstname, $lastname, $email, $country, $ho
+mepage, $imtype, $imid, $info)");
$sth->execute or die "execute failed: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sth->finish or die "execute failed: $DBI::errstr\n";<

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Basically I got in this mess by trying to escape the characters like @ from screwing up the DB. This is on a paid host and I cannot upgrade the DBI module so I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas? The connection works fine and all of the params are being picked up ok too. They work ok if I just want to print them.

Thanks for the help!
Baiul.

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In reply to DBI quote: invalid number of parameters by Baiul

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