Help: ORDER BY variable does not work in CS3

Question

I have a variable in my recordset query for the ORDER BY
clause which is set by the URL variable, 'order'. With CS2 the
recordset worked fine with the variable. CS3 shows N/A for the
variable type in the Recordset dialog, and when I click Test to
test my recordset, it says I need to specify a variable type. So I
set it to 'Text' and suddenly the variable doesn't even work. It
just orders the records by ID. Am I going to have to use CS2 to
create recordsets with an ORDER BY variable in the future or is
there some other way around this?

Answer 1

AngryCloud wrote:
> In CS2, Dreamweaver does not ask for a data type.
There is no such thing as Dreamweaver CS2. You are presumably
talking
about the version of Dreamweaver that was bundled with Adobe
Creative
Suite 2 after Macromedia was acquired by Adobe. That was
Dreamweaver 8.
From the sound of it, you have the original Dreamweaver 8,
which didn't
use data types for variables. Everything changed when the
8.0.2 updater
was released. The updater made important changes to the way
Dreamweaver
handles variables in SQL queries. These are designed to
prevent
malicious attacks through SQL injection. Dreamweaver CS3 uses
the same
code as Dreamweaver 8.0.2.
If I remember correctly, Dreamweaver will automatically
update all the
code if you open the Recordset dialog box, make any changes,
and then
click OK. If that doesn't work, the safest approach is to
select the
Recordset in the Server Behaviors panel, and click the minus
button to
remove it cleanly. Then build the recordset again: a
nuisance, I know,
but it makes your code more secure.
When using LIKE in a SQL query, you must always choose Text
as the data
type, even if you're using numbers in the variable field.
This is
because the SQL specification says that LIKE is for comparing
strings.
Dreamweaver 8.0.2 and above now follows the SQL
specification, whereas
it didn't before.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
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