From: Jean-Marc van Leerdam j.m.van.leerdam@gmail.com

2009/7/7 Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com:

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I'm having trouble using the SQL2wiki extension in a template.

Something seems to be goofy about the use of a parameter. The parameter is not getting the value it is supposed to get, and the MySQL error messages seem to indicate that one of the curly braces is getting stripped off:

Here is the template with as simple a query as I could muster; user_id 2 is a valid record:

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? ? <noinclude>{{project timelog1|2}}</noinclude> ? ? <includeonly><sql2wiki database="EcoReality">SELECT * FROM mw_user WHERE user_id = {{{1}}}</sql2wiki></includeonly>

and here is what is produced, error messages in front of an empty table:

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? ? Warning: mysql_query() [<a href='http://www.mysql.com/doc'>http://www.mysql.com/doc </a>]: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '{{1}}}' at line 1 in [full path deleted]/mediawiki-1.13.3/ extensions/SQL2Wiki.php on line 42

I have no experience with this extension, but aren't user_id's strings? In that case, the {{{1}}} probably needs some quotes around it.

Hi, Jean-Marc,

Thanks for that thought. I have already tried it.

When there are double or single quotes around the formal parameter, I have no error message, but the parameter is not passed. It is as if an empty string is passed, based on what is produced in the resulting output.

(BTW: the user_id is an integer in the database, and when I run it with quotes around the formal parameter, it returns results for used_id = 0, no matter what is passed in as the actual parameter.)

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