Can you advice me on my code, im new to this- im trying to insert data into mysql using a jsp form.. Am i doing this correctly. any help, much appreciated.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>REGISTRATION</title>
</head>
<html>
<body>
<form action="Registration.jsp" method=post>
<center>
<table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 border=0>
<th bgcolor="#CCCCFF" colspan=2>
USER REGISTRATION
<br></th>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td valign=top>
<b>First Name</b><br>
<input type="text" name="firstName" value="" size=15 maxlength=20></td>
<td valign=top>
<b>Last Name</b><br>
<input type="text" name="lastName" value="" size=15 maxlength=20></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td valign=top>
<b>E-Mail</b><br>
<input type="text" name="email" value="" size=25 maxlength=125>
<br></td>
<td valign=top>
<b>Date of Birth </b><br>
<input type="text" name="dateOfBirth" value="" size=15 maxlength=5></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td valign=top colspan=2>
<div align="center">
<b>Desired User Name</b><br>
<input type="text" name="userName" size=30 value="" maxlength=10>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td valign=top>
<b>Password</b><br>
<input type="password" name="password" size=10 value=""
maxlength=10></td>
<td valign=top>
<b>Confirm Password</b><br>
<input type="password" name="password2" size=10 value=""
maxlength=10></td>
<br>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td valign=top colspan=2>
<div align="center">
<b>Gender</b>
<br>
<input type="radio" name="notify" value="Yes" checked>
Male
<input type="radio" name="notify" value="No" >
Female
<br>
<br>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c8d8f8">
<td align=center colspan=2>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset"
value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>
////////////////////////////////jsp code
<%
Connection conn = null;
String username= "lovers";
String password= "project";
String url= "jdbc:mysql://csserver.ucd.ie/lovers";
String userName1 = request.getParameter("userName");
String password1 = request.getParameter("password");
String eaddress = request.getParameter("email");
String dob = request.getParameter("dateOfBirth");
String ************ = request.getParameter("notify");
try{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance ();
conn = DriverManager.getConnection (url, userName, password);
java.sql.Date age= java.sql.Date.valueOf(dob);
PreparedStatment st;
st = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO REGISTRATION (USERID, USERNAME, PASSWORD, EMAIL, DATEOFBIRTH, ************) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)");
st.setInt(1,0);
st.setString(2,userName1);
st.setString(3,password);
st.setString(4,eaddress);
st.setDate(5,age);
st.setInt(6,************);
st.executeUpdate();
st.clearParameters();
conn.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
%>
</body>
</html>
Im trying to insert data into mysql using jsp
