Hi! I've been trying to dump data from a web form (http://prakashfamilyonline.com (the lower form)) and get the script to execute perfectly but the data does not go into the database........ the code is below.. PLEASE HELP! Thanks. Surya PS: It gives me a "Can't execute SQL statement. Perl says , DBI says " error but doesnt say what error and I'm not able to figure it out............. 
#!/perl/bin

require 'cgi-lib2.pl';

use CGI qw(:standard);        # Must be used to get the param() functi
+on
use strict;
use OLE;

my $formemail = param("formemail");
my $formpass = param("formpassword");
my $formcpass = param("cformpassword");
my $formfriend = param("formfriendOf");


# This section is for appending the data to the database.
sub new_record {
my $dbh;
$dbh = CreateObject OLE "ADODB.Connection" or die "Can't create connec
+tion to DataBase: $!" unless $dbh;
$dbh->Open("Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=_private/db1.
+mdb");
my $rs = CreateObject OLE "ADODB.Recordset" or die "can not create rec
+ordset"; 

my $sql;
    
$sql = "INSERT INTO $formfriend (email,password) VALUES ($formemail,$f
+ormpass)";
$rs = $dbh->Execute( $sql ) or die print ( "Can't execute SQL statemen
+t. Perl says $!, DBI says ",$dbh::errstr,"\n");



}

 print &PrintHeader;
 print &HtmlTop ("Success!");
 new_record();
 print "Email: $formemail<br>\n";
 print "Password: $formemail<br>\n";
 print "Friend Of: $formfriend<br>\n";
 print &HtmlBot;

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