I am guessing you want to do this instead: my $dsn = "DBI:$driver:database=$database;host=$hostname";
By using the single quote, Perl will not interpolate the variable names...
Brent
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rcom.com> Subject: Database connection trouble
02/21/2003 11:01
AM
A coworker and I have been working on connecting to a MySQL database
running on the webserver. We are using the following command to
connect:
my $dsn = 'DBI:$driver:database=$database;host=$hostname';
my $dbh = DBI=>connect("$dsn", "$user", "$password") or die errstr
This works when run from an ordinary shell based perl program but when
we try to put it on the website into the cgi-bin it will not connect.
What are we doing wrong?
Robbert van Andel
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