OK, I can now successfully enter data into my MySQL database through my CGI web page. I can click a button and retrieve all the records, but I can not seem to get the search code to work.
Below is the web page code and then my Python script. When I click my search button it just gives me all the records I know this line is executing: cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name = name order by name") Because I played with the "order by" but it seems to ignore my where clause. No matter what I type in the form text box (or even if I leave it blank) I get all the records. I can hard code this line to: cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name = 'Fred' order by name") and it returns the one record corectly. Any ideas? Fred ------------------------------------------ <form action="cgi-bin/searchdata.py"> <p>Enter the name to find: <p><input type="text" name="name" size="30"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </form> ------------------------------------------ #!/usr/local/bin/python print "Content-Type: text/html\n" import MySQLdb import cgi db=MySQLdb.connect(host = 'localhost', db = 'phone') cursor=db.cursor() cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name = name order by name") result = cursor.fetchall() for record in result: print '<p>' print record[0] print '--' print record[1] print '--' print record[2] print '--' print record[3] print '</p>' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list