DW 8.0.2 ASP Recordset and Order By parameter?

Question

Hi
Then update to Dreamweaver to 8.0.2 I can't use parameters
like I could before then creating an ASP Recordset?
For example if I want to user parameters for sort ordering.
Ex. SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY param1 param2.
Is there a workaround? Seems odd becouse you could do like
this in earlier versions? Very annoying :)
Of course i can hand code it, but in that way i can't use the
behavior panel.

Answer 1

"PizzaGood" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:er4f7o$nv4$[email protected]..
> How about a quick example?
Sigh. I've been cranky, so I guess I should at least show you
a reasonably
safe way, right?
DW's new recordsets will have a query that looks something
like:
myCmd.CommandText = "SELECT ColA, ColB, ColC FROM dbo.MyTable
WHERE ColD=?
AND ColE LIKE ?"
To add a dynamic ORDER BY, you'll need to append it to the
query. Don't
bother creating a recordset parameter to hold the column list
- you'd just
end up erasing it all anyway.
Dim SafeCols
Dim OrderBy
OrderBy = Request.Form("OrderBy") 'or wherever your dynamic
order columns
come from
'This is that part that a novice (and some intermediate
developers) will
leave out, not thinking about the fact that your form
'isn't the only way this page might be called.
'The expression strips everything that's not a letter, digit,
space, square
bracket, dot, or comma.
'If you have hyphens in your column names, then sorry, that
takes a better
expression and I'm being lazy right now.
Set SafeCols = New RegExp
SafeCols.Pattern = "[^\w\s\[\]\.,]"
SafeCols.Global = True
SafeCols.IgnoreCase = False
OrderBy = SafeCols.Replace(OrderBy,"")
Set SafeCols = Nothing
myCmd.CommandText = "SELECT ColA, ColB, ColC FROM dbo.MyTable
WHERE ColD=?
AND ColE LIKE ? ORDER BY " & OrderBy
And that's all there is to it.