Hello all
Iam making a simple scripted program that can read and write to a mysql database using html forms. I can search the database fine so far. Bu now i am trying to insert data into the database table but it just doesnt wanna work. I think its somthing todo with the param part of the program as i was using one param fields before but now going to use two.
Heres the code for the inserting of data. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use vars qw($Query $Query2 $dbh $sth $Value $Data1 $Data2);

my @results;
my @row;
use DBI;

$Query = new CGI(  );


$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:exelstock")
      or die "Cannot connect: " . $DBI::errstr;

$Data1 = $Query->param('Value4');
$Data2 = $Query->param('Value5');

$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO walstock (sid, name, qty) VALUES (DE
+FAULT, $Data1, $Data2)");
$sth->execute();

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML>\n";
print "<BODY>\n";
print "<HEAD><TITLE>Insert Records</TITLE></HEAD>\n";

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM walstock WHERE name='$Data1'");
$sth->execute();

while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
    print "@row\n";

}


$sth = $sth->finish();

$dbh->disconnect();

print "</BODY>\n";
print "</HTML>\n";

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Trying to do this for a university project, any help would be great thanks all

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.

2005-03-21 Edited by Arunbear: Changed title from 'Was working but now this part doesnt', as per Monastery guidelines

In reply to Problems inserting values in mysql database by ginda

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