Check that you're using correct case as well.
Also, you will need to be careful with quote marks, as these need to be
escaped by putting two together before sending into a sql query - so for
example, O'Hara Airport should read O''Hara Airport when added to a sql
statement.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Vitantonio Messa
Sent: 31 October 2007 13:17
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Parsing textbox data

hi,

I think this should work:
#set($j = $request.formval)

Vito



V. Harikrishnan Nair wrote:
> Hello again !
> 
>     I want to take a string entered into a textbox and place it into a

> MySQL db (which is not XWiki's RDB). For that I created a simple form 
> shown below
> -
> 
> <form action = "VelocityTest2" method = "get" >
>      <input type = "text" name = "formval">
>      <input type = "submit" value = "submit"> </form>
> 
> This is the velocity page (named VelocityTest2) which is supposed to 
> parse the string entered into the text box -
> 
> #set($groovyObject = $xwiki.parseGroovyFromPage("Amrita 
> IIS.GroovyTest4")) #set($j = $Request.getParameterValues('formval'))
> $groovyObject.SQL_conn($j)
> 
> 
> A Groovy page (named GroovyTest4) takes that string and enters it into

> the MySQL db with the SQL_conn() function and I'm positive that my 
> groovy code works.
> 
> My problem is that the string is not being parsed from the textbox 
> into the Velocity page. I am getting a null value instead.
> 
> Thanks,
> Harikrishnan
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