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Database value to variable
- Thread starter fatmbk
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Fatbml,
Are you simply trying to create a recordset? If so try this:
Are you simply trying to create a recordset? If so try this:
Code:
<!-- #include file="adovbs.inc" -->
<!-- #include file="connect.asp" -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<%
' open a recordset, select the field in database table
strSQL="SELECT theFieldWanted FROM yourTable;"
objRS.Open strSQL, objConn
' assign a variable (can be any name) to the record value
theFieldWanted = objRS("theFieldWanted")
' Loop through recordset to get all field values if more
' than 1 and write the result to the screen
If objRS.EOF Then
Response.Write "Sorry, no data"
Else
Do While Not objRS.EOF
Response.Write theFieldWanted & "<br>"
objRS.MoveNext
Loop
End If
objRS.Close
Set objRS = Nothing
objConn.Close
Set objConn = Nothing
%>
</body>
</html>- Thread starter
- #3
that is in effect what i need to be able to do. Basically it is for an admin section for sending out a weekly email to a list of email address in a database. I need to pass all the email address from the database into objCDO.Bcc. My thoughts were to create a variable to store the email addresses and then set odjCDO.Bcc to this variable. Hope that makes sense.
Any ideas how to do it?
Fatmbk
Any ideas how to do it?
Fatmbk
An alternative method is to dynamically assign values to dynamically named variables. The variable names could be generated from the database's table field name(s). NOTE: This example only works if you SELECT only one record. Otherwise the values would be 'overwritten' during the loop.
So if you had a table setup like this:
mytable
id firstname lastname
1 bob smith
And your SQL statement was this:
SQL="SELECT id, firstname, lastname FROM mytable WHERE id=1"
you would end up with:
id=1
firstname="bob"
lastname="smith"
As stated above, this isn't meant to be neccessarily the 'best' solution, it is just meant to give you some ideas.
I reccommend using arrays for one record or many records, but for beginners (It says TechnicalUser next to your alias) it's a difficult undertaking, especially if debugging is invloved (and it always is!). The connection and recordset methods are meant to be as generic as possible for easy conversion to your own project, that is if you find the code useful.
-a6m1n0
"Don't try to reinvent the wheel." -My HS FORTRAN Professor
Code:
<%
dim dbpath, dbfile, connstr, conn, rs, SQL, tmpstr
dbpath="_database/" 'dbpath="" is valid if db is in rootdir
dbfile="mydbfile.mdb" 'access filename
connstr="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="&Server.Mappath(""&dbpath&dbfile&"")&";"
SQL="SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM tablename WHERE field1='"& some_identifying_value &"'"
set conn = server.createobject("adodb.connection")
conn.open connstr
set rs = server.createobject("adodb.recordset")
rs.open SQL, conn, 3, 3
if not rs.eof then
for each field in rs.fields
tmpstr=field.name&"=rs.fields("""&field.name&""")"
execute(tmpstr)
'for testing purposes
'tmpstr="response.write("""&field.name&"=""&field.name&""<br>"")"
'execute(tmpstr)
next
end if
rs.close
set rs = nothing
conn.close
set conn = nothing
%>So if you had a table setup like this:
mytable
id firstname lastname
1 bob smith
And your SQL statement was this:
SQL="SELECT id, firstname, lastname FROM mytable WHERE id=1"
you would end up with:
id=1
firstname="bob"
lastname="smith"
As stated above, this isn't meant to be neccessarily the 'best' solution, it is just meant to give you some ideas.
I reccommend using arrays for one record or many records, but for beginners (It says TechnicalUser next to your alias) it's a difficult undertaking, especially if debugging is invloved (and it always is!). The connection and recordset methods are meant to be as generic as possible for easy conversion to your own project, that is if you find the code useful.
-a6m1n0
"Don't try to reinvent the wheel." -My HS FORTRAN Professor
- Thread starter
- #6
Yes - i'll try again at explaining it a bit better!
I have a database with a list of email addresses stored in it. I want to be able to send an email, using CDONTS, to all the email addresses stored within the database. I need to know how to get this list of email addresses into the objCDO.Bcc variable of CDONTS. My script works with single email addresses by just adding them using a text box input via a form. I'm just unsure how i get all the email addresses within the database into the BCC field.
Cheers,
Fatmbk
I have a database with a list of email addresses stored in it. I want to be able to send an email, using CDONTS, to all the email addresses stored within the database. I need to know how to get this list of email addresses into the objCDO.Bcc variable of CDONTS. My script works with single email addresses by just adding them using a text box input via a form. I'm just unsure how i get all the email addresses within the database into the BCC field.
Cheers,
Fatmbk
Code:
'[red]objConn[/red] is your connection object
strEmail = ""
strSQL = "SELECT email from myTable"
Set objRS = [red]objConn[/red].Execute(strSQL)
If NOT objRS.EOF Then
While NOT objRS.EOF
If strEmail = "" Then
strEmail = objRS("email")
Else
strEmail = strEmail & ";" & objRS("email")
End If
objRS.MoveNext
Wend
End If
Set objRS = Nothing
objCDO.Bcc = strEmailTony
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