title: Settings certain data types into a database
body: <p>I'm having a lot of issues with resolving data types from my jsp form into my cassandra database.</p>
  
  <p>In my 'registerUser' class, I had email set as a string for example, as I assumed it would be. So the user enters their email on the jsp form, which is then sent to the 'profiles' table. This process works for the login, password, forename and surname BUT it isn't working for Email, DOB and Gender, am I missing an obvious point working with these data types?</p>
  
  <p>Email obviously has various types of chars in it so I set it as varchar in the database, but it's string in the jsp....I'm sure that's the issue.</p>
  
  <p>DOB is a date selection box on the jsp form and gender is a select drop down box, not sure how to enter either of those. I've spent what seems like ages on this and would appreciate any help, even a nudge in the right direction would be great, I don't expect the answer given to me or anything!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT- *****SOLVED*****</p>
  
  <p>I am so sorry, thanks for all the input and help, I appreciate it but clearly I'm more exhausted than I thought. Been working on this constantly for days, building the database and website etc and there wasn't an error really. I had simply forgotten to create the column in my table, so there was nowhere for the data to be inserted! Again, sorry, and thanks for the help etc.</p>