On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Brendan W. McAdams wrote:
> I found some info on Apache::DBI in the Mod_Perl developers guide that may
> help. Basically though I globalised $dbh and then made my connection code
> this:
>
> $dbh ||= DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:$database","$db_user","$db_pass");
Unless I'm misreading the Apache::DBI manual page, this is
completely unnecessary. Apache::DBI makes persistent
connections transparent so you can call connect() and
disconnect() as normal. You don't need to do one-time
initializations, global variables, or anything.
- Paul
