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August 20th, 2002, 11:34 AM

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Invalid character when I try to connect

Hi!

I have been trying for the past week to connect to a remote MySQL database using ASP with no success at all.

I continually get an error message telling me that I have an invalid character on the <% line. The code is not nested within another block of ASP code, and I have installed the MyODBC 2.50 driver in my local machine.

I have been asking for help on another ASP website, and I'm being told that the code works on another machine. This is the code that is just driving me nuts:

<html>
<head>
<title>Thank you!</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="guest.css" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>

<% ***
***' Creating the connection object and opens the database
***strConnection = "driver={MySQL}; server=hari; database=guestbook" _
*** & "uid=root; pwd=;"
***set con = server.createobject("adodb.connection")
***con.open strConnection
***' This adds data from the form to the database ***
** sqlInsert = "insert into visits (FirstName, LastName, Address, Address2, City, Country, Code," _
********** & "Phone, EMail, Website, Memo, Date, Time)" _
********** & " values ('" & Request.Form("first") & "','" & Request.Form("last") _
********** & "','" & Request.Form("address") & "','" & Request.Form("address2") _
********** & "','" & Request.Form("city") & "','" & Request.Form("country") _
********** & "','" & Request.Form("code") & "','" & Request.Form("phone") _
********** & "','" & Request.Form("mail") & "','" & Request.Form("web") _
********** & "','" & Request.Form("comments")_
********** & "','" & MySQLDate() & "','" & MySQLTime() & "')"
' Executing the sql insertion code **
***con.execute sqlInsert
***' Done. Now close the connection
***con.close
***set con = nothing*
%>


<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<h2>Thank you for visiting!</h2>
<hr>
<p>Your information has been successfully added to our database on <br>
<strong><%=FormatDateTime(date,1)%></strong> at <strong><%=time%></strong>.</p>
<a href="guestbook.asp">Return to the guest book</a><br>
<a href="showdata.asp">View guestbook entries</a>
</table>
</body>
</html>

If I could get any extra pointers as to what I could be doing wrong, I would greatly apprecieate it.

Thanks
Neil Ericson
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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