Hello out there... I wanted to thank everyone who has kindly offered their assistance with my current project. Of course I have more questions, But first I wanted to share how I solved my current issue. It's displays a clever mySQL trick! -- see script below:
Dave Gilden ( kora musician / audiophile / web master @ cora connection / Ft. Worth, TX, USA) And here is a question for anyone who knows sendmail. How can I add a 'CC' or even better a 'BCC' instead of using multiple email address comma delimited. my $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; my $recipient = '[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; ...some code... sub send_mail { my $data; $email ||= '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t"); print MAIL "To: $recipient\n"; print MAIL "From: $name <$email>\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; print MAIL "lots of text from the database\n"; close(MAIL); } MySQL TRICK ########################### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI; use strict; ... some stuff removed ... my $subject = "Jakes's Lawncare Guestbook New Entry"; my ($id,$sql,$dbh,$sth,$datecreated,$name,$email,$comments); &initialize_dbi; #### Read from Guestbook ################### ### get and store MAX(id) -- the last entry-- via SQL $sql = "SELECT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:=MAX(id) FROM $table_name;"; run_statement($sql); $sql = "SELECT id, DATE_FORMAT(DATE_ADD(datecreated, INTERVAL 2 HOUR), '%c/%e/%y at: %l:%i %p'),email, name, comments FROM $table_name where id = [EMAIL PROTECTED];"; run_statement($sql); ($id,$datecreated,$email,$name,$comments) = $sth->fetchrow; $sth->finish; #debug #print "$id\n$datecreated\n$email\n$name\n$comments"; $dbh->disconnect; # close date base connection sub initialize_dbi{ my $drh = DBI->install_driver( 'mysql' ); $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$user_name:$sql_server", $user_name, $user_password); die "Cannot connect: $DBI::errstr\n" unless $ ; } sub run_statement{ my $stmt = shift; $sth = $dbh->prepare($stmt); $sth->execute; } __END__ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]