Hi Gerald
Looks like you need a username Jerry not gjw, here is the format I use
to connect. Mike
$dsn = "DBI:mysql:host=$host_name;database=$db_name"
return (DBI->connect ($dsn, $username,$password,
{PrintError => 0, RaiseError => 1}));
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: January 14, 2005 3:55 AM
Subject: MySQL & Perl
> I am trying to get Perl to talk to MySQL that I have setup. According to
> "WinMySQLAdmin1.4"
>
>
>
> Local Host Name = GJW
>
>
>
> Local User name = Jerry
>
>
>
> Databases:
>
>
>
> GJW
>
> Club
>
> bar
>
> mysql
>
> test
>
>
>
> I am using the following code:
>
>
>
> #!/perl
>
> use warnings;
>
> use strict;
>
> use DBI;
>
>
>
> my $dbh=DBI->connect( 'DBI:mysql:GJW:club:bar', 'gjw', 'password' ) or
die
> "Cannot connect -> gjw!!<br>$DBI::errstr";
>
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
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