Re: Working with Perl

[David Shrewsbury]

What is open_dbi()? That sounds like a wrapper subroutine somebody created. If you are using a Unix system, the DBI and DBD::mysql man pages are good starting points:

man DBI
man DBD::mysql

There are also some good tutorials on the Internet. Here is one: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/10/DBI.html

A basic script to connect and disconnect would be something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DBI;
$dbh= DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:database=test;host=localhost", "", "");
$dbh->disconnect;

-Dave



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2006 09:38AM by David Shrewsbury.