DaniWeb IT Discussion Community - mySQL UPDATE is adding erroneous spaces, special characters

using PHP with mySQL, or ASP with msAccess 2000 on a win2000Server web server; also using a "rich text format" utility to allow formatting of text in a text area: when i use the mySQL command "UPDATE", and data from the textarea is written to the database, it adds erroneous spaces in various places, as well as other characters like "?", blocks, etc. However, simply displaying data I add manually into the database field is fine, until the UPDATE is used. Using windows 2000 server, msAccess 2000, mySQL 5.x. current rich text formatting

my latest ASP code:

<%

If Request.Form("submit") ="Update Homepage" Then
Dim strMessage
Dim sConnString, connection, sSQL

strMessage = replace(Request.Form("msgContent"), "'", "''")

Set rsHomepage = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQLHomepage = "UPDATE homepage SET message ='" & strMessage & "'"

'response.write strSQLHomepage
rsHomepage.Open strSQLHomepage, adoCon

Set rsMessage = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQLmsg1 = "SELECT * FROM homepage"
rsMessage.Open strSQLmsg1, adoCon

If rsMessage.BOF _
And rsMessage.EOF Then
strSQLmsg2 = "INSERT into homepage (message) values (" & strMessage & ")"
Else
strSQLmsg2 = "UPDATE homepage SET message = '" & strMessage & "'"
End If

rsHomepage.Open strSQLmsg2, adoCon

adoCon.Close
Set adoCon = Nothing
Response.Redirect "test3.asp"
Else
Dim adoCon
Dim rsHomepage
Dim strSQL

Set rsHomepage = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM homepage"
rsHomepage.Open strSQL, adoCon

Set rsHomepage2 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM homepage"
rsHomepage2.Open strSQL, adoCon
If rsHomepage2.BOF _
And rsHomepage2.EOF Then
message = ""
Else
message = rsHomepage2("message")
End If

End If
%>

<!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>INSIDECSH Barry's Admin Utility</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/4style.css">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme: "advanced",
invalid_elements : "strong,em,table,td,tr,font,span,img",
content_css : "../css/main.css"
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<center>
<div id="contentMain"><br />

<form name="frmMessage" action="test3.asp" method="post">

<textarea name="msgContent" id="msgContent" cols="40" rows="10" wrap="hard">
<% 'Connect to the .mdb, located in "db" of the root directory
Response.Write message
%>
</textarea>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update Homepage">
</form>
</div>


</body>
</html>
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it displays what is in the database, and the UPDATE appears to work "successfully", of course with the erroneous data.

help would be greatly, greatly appreciated!!