hi guys,

This might sound like a silly problem, i kinda understand whats going on in the following statement, but i am using dreamweaver as my authoring tool(dremaweaver tends to add things that are not always needed i find) and it derived the code automatically when clicking an "insert record" option.
Could anyone please re-write or help me understand what is being implemented here in dummy terms or so i can re-write it myself?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated - Im confused .
thank you.



<%
' *** Edit Operations: declare variables

Dim MM_editAction
Dim MM_abortEdit
Dim MM_editQuery
Dim MM_editCmd

Dim MM_editConnection
Dim MM_editTable
Dim MM_editRedirectUrl
Dim MM_editColumn
Dim MM_recordId

Dim MM_fieldsStr
Dim MM_columnsStr
Dim MM_fields
Dim MM_columns
Dim MM_typeArray
Dim MM_formVal
Dim MM_delim
Dim MM_altVal
Dim MM_emptyVal
Dim MM_i

MM_editAction = CStr(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))
If (Request.QueryString <> "") Then
MM_editAction = MM_editAction & "?" & Request.QueryString
End If

' boolean to abort record edit
MM_abortEdit = false

' query string to execute
MM_editQuery = ""
%>
<%
' *** Insert Record: set variables

If (CStr(Request("MM_insert")) = "form2") Then

MM_editConnection = MM_Wortons_Notification_db_STRING
MM_editTable = "NOTIFICATION"
MM_editRedirectUrl = "Registration.asp"
MM_fieldsStr = "selectnature|value|title|value|commenttxt|val ue"
MM_columnsStr = "Notification_Type|',none,''|Notification_Descript ion|',none,''|Notification_Comment|',none,''"

' create the MM_fields and MM_columns arrays
MM_fields = Split(MM_fieldsStr, "|")
MM_columns = Split(MM_columnsStr, "|")

' set the form values
For MM_i = LBound(MM_fields) To UBound(MM_fields) Step 2
MM_fields(MM_i+1) = CStr(Request.Form(MM_fields(MM_i)))
Next

' append the query string to the redirect URL
If (MM_editRedirectUrl <> "" And Request.QueryString <> "") Then
If (InStr(1, MM_editRedirectUrl, "?", vbTextCompare) = 0 And Request.QueryString <> "") Then
MM_editRedirectUrl = MM_editRedirectUrl & "?" & Request.QueryString
Else
MM_editRedirectUrl = MM_editRedirectUrl & "&" & Request.QueryString
End If
End If

End If
%>
<%
' *** Insert Record: construct a sql insert statement and execute it

Dim MM_tableValues
Dim MM_dbValues

If (CStr(Request("MM_insert")) <> "") Then

' create the sql insert statement
MM_tableValues = ""
MM_dbValues = ""
For MM_i = LBound(MM_fields) To UBound(MM_fields) Step 2
MM_formVal = MM_fields(MM_i+1)
MM_typeArray = Split(MM_columns(MM_i+1),",")
MM_delim = MM_typeArray(0)
If (MM_delim = "none") Then MM_delim = ""
MM_altVal = MM_typeArray(1)
If (MM_altVal = "none") Then MM_altVal = ""
MM_emptyVal = MM_typeArray(2)
If (MM_emptyVal = "none") Then MM_emptyVal = ""
If (MM_formVal = "") Then
MM_formVal = MM_emptyVal
Else
If (MM_altVal <> "") Then
MM_formVal = MM_altVal
ElseIf (MM_delim = "'") Then ' escape quotes
MM_formVal = "'" & Replace(MM_formVal,"'","''") & "'"
Else
MM_formVal = MM_delim + MM_formVal + MM_delim
End If
End If
If (MM_i <> LBound(MM_fields)) Then
MM_tableValues = MM_tableValues & ","
MM_dbValues = MM_dbValues & ","
End If
MM_tableValues = MM_tableValues & MM_columns(MM_i)
MM_dbValues = MM_dbValues & MM_formVal
Next
MM_editQuery = "insert into " & MM_editTable & " (" & MM_tableValues & ") values (" & MM_dbValues & ")"

If (Not MM_abortEdit) Then
' execute the insert
Set MM_editCmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection = MM_editConnection
MM_editCmd.CommandText = MM_editQuery
MM_editCmd.Execute
MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection.Close

If (MM_editRedirectUrl <> "") Then
Response.Redirect(MM_editRedirectUrl)
End If
End If

End If
%>

it seem this code was automatically generated by dreamweaver. Im not 100% sure but it looks like its code to add a record to a database. There is a an horriffic amount of extra code that is not needed for such an operation.

What is it u want to do exactly, bulid a user registration form of some sort?

I think using the drag-drop style dreamweaver code actually makes ASP seem a lot more difficult than it actually is. Personally, i see the MM_'s and I freak out and don't even want to look at what's going on there.

Sorry for the late reply, yes i am tring to write a users registration details to my database using my own code. It smore difficult trying to work out what Dreamweaver is doing at each line!! Any ideas on how to do a registration page?
Thanks.

What the *#$%@&?!?

I love Dreamweaver for HTML and the like, but I've never used to for ASP - now I'm glad for that. What a mess! I've seem their JavaScript and it looks a lot like this. That is, the "MM_" is in front of EVERYTHING and the code is very confusing. (I am starting to think that is their plan!)

There're lots of resources for executing INSERT statements in ASP. They are just like UPDATE and DELETE statements, as far as the ASP code is concerned. (Of course, the SQL is different.)

Here is my code for registering a new user. Listed below you'll find ONLY the code to execute the INSERT statement. I also check for duplicate usernames and a couple other things...