Um.. what did the book not cover about this? We used DBI to connect to MySQL in about every chapter. What did the simple example on page 57 not provide for connecting to a DB?
Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:12:13AM -0700, Maureen E Fischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > > > I am writing my first CGI application and after analysis of the data > structure that is required I determined that a DBM file would not be > sufficient. Mysql was suggested to me. Unfortunately I could not find > A book that seemed based on Perl and sql. Everything I found connected > Mysql to PHP -- which I know nothing about. Since I am new to almost > Everyting except some ancient languages and systems I didn't want to > Bite off yet another learning experience just yet. I did find and > purchase "Writing CGI Applications with Perl", which did have a chapter > on sql, but since I am having trouble with my first connect I think I > will need more > Help then the brief chapter can give me. Any suggestion would > Be very welcome. > -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. -- Frank Zappa (response to a question from Senator Hollings) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
