> I'm an absolute beginner to Perl. I need to write a script that will take tables from a SQL server database, somehow get them into HTML format, and automatically generate an email to a list of users containing the info I just converted into HTML. All I can seem to find online is generating automatic emails from web forms. Can anyone give me some ideas?? I would appreciate it. I just started a new job and don't want to mess this up...... >
Hey Sarah7281 You have a pretty ambitious set of needs. You'll probably have to break it down into pieces and go after one thing at a time. The e-mail thing is probably the easiest. Maybe it would help if you told us what programming experience you have? There are ready-built modules out there that just require the customization of a few variables up front. That's what sucked me into Perl ages ago. Unfortunately, I never learned much more than that. Until I bought "Perl for Web Site Management", by John Callender, [O'Reilly]. It has chapters that would be helpful for you, and a nice easing into Perl in the opening chapters. Sure filled in a lot of the blanks for me. It doesn't go through Perl/SQL, though. Other people on this list have and will provide more explicit examples, but I'd recommend a book so you can get some more foundation in Perl and ask more specific questions. Luck Gabino -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
