Can't you use the DBI module to access more kind of databases with their corresponding DBD modules, like DBD::mysql, for example?
It is pretty easy in Perl also. Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: PHP bias > > > I am bothers me. >> > It bothers me that that the MySQL people have a bias towards PHP. >> > PHP is an inferior language. Deal with perl instead. >> > >> > ............................ >> > Robert >> >> Ouch.....Death to all fanatics!!! >> >> Do you have any question or are you just boiling? > >It's just that MySQL and PHP integrate together so well. The authors of >PHP have gone to great lengths to create extensive interfaces to a wide >range of databases, not just MySQL. perl doesn't have anything like as >much database support, which is why PHP has become popular in the web >community. I agree. It's really a drag that you can't use databases very well from within Perl very easily. I wish that someone would invent a database inferface for Perl. And it'd be really cool if they'd do it in such a way that the general interface was portable, so that you could plug in drivers for particular database engines like MySQL or PostgreSQL or Oracle or Informix or even flat-file formats like CSV. And then it'd be neat if someone would invent Perl modules to that would use this database interface so that you could do things like transfer data in and out of databases to send information to and from entities like XML documents or Excel spreadsheets. Man! The more I think about it, the more of a bummer it is that you just can't do this stuff from Perl. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
