hi there hope someone can help. I have and html form which is being posted to a cgi script. Whatever the user input's in the form should delete the correspoding row from the database. When I post my form, i get taken to the script and it there appear to be no errors. However, the row is not deleted from my database. I am using
//to get the value from the form my $testTitle = param('title'); //to delete the row in the database $rows = $dbh->do(" DELETE FROM music WHERE title = $testTitle ");
the page just says done at the bottom but no modification in database. Can anyone suggest a poss. reason for this?

2006-09-01 Retitled by Corion, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'dbi-delete'


In reply to Issuing a DELETE statement with DBI by mattdope

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