On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:26:18PM -0600, Mark Browne wrote: > I am also trying to get web <-->database thing going. > So far I have got the web form <--->Perl part working; Yippie for CGI. > The cgi-lib code makes this falling-off-a-log simple. > > Now for the Perl<--->database part. > I am actually working on it tonight. > It seem that DBI is the way to go. > If I understand this correctly it works the same for most databases. > I downloaded it last night and am working through the documentation. > > A little working sample code would be nice. use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:<dbname>","username","password") or die $DBI::errstr; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select col1,col2 from table where col3 = ?"); $sth->execute('col3val'); while (my ($col1, $col2) = $sth->fetchrow_array()) { print "$col1: $col2\n"; } $sth->finish(); $dbh->disconnect(); hope that helps! -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>