forget the 'use dbUtil;'. that was my own utility module.
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 03:20 PM, bob ackerman wrote:
> this is how i am doing it:
>
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use DBI;
> use dbUtil;
>
> $db_name = param('db_create'); # however you want to get the db name to
> create
>
> $drh = DBI->install_driver('mysql') or die "couldn't install driver";
> $drh->func('createdb', "$db_name", '','','', 'admin')
> or die "couldn't create database $db_name";
>
> On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:20 PM, James Taylor wrote:
>
>> CPAN is running exremely slow (as per usual) and I just have a quick
>> question. How do I CREATE a database from within perl with MySQL?
>> Generally
>> the first command you give for DBI will be a statement to connect to a
>> db,
>> but what if I have to have the db created first?
>>
>> This is for a script that will automate the installation of a set of 12
>> scripts, and sets up 6 tables, and I don't want to have to tell users to
>> first have to run mysql, type in "create database blah", quit, and then
>> run
>> the script.
>>
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