RE: perl / database question - thanks!

2002-04-05 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: Just wanted to say thanks and post what I finally came up with in the code (for the first part of what I'm trying to do, anyways ...) Will have to edit; I'm not even using the start_form sub query ... figured this was as 'bare bones' as I could make it. (*special thanks to elaine a., br

Re: perl / database question

2002-04-02 Thread Brent Michalski
Just quicky, this is what I see. 1) Use the DBI module and the DBD::Pg driver. DBI is very well documented. I've written several articles that use it, it is covered in my book Writing CGI Applications with Perl (Kevin Meltzer wrote this with me also). 2) Biggest problem: while ( my($first, @

Re: perl / database question

2002-04-02 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Johnson, Shaunn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Yes I am very new at this ... I was hoping I *>could learn from some examples floating *>around ... but I'm not sure where my results *>should merge with the code (successfully). *> *>The 'while' statement: I want to say 'while *>reading from this list

Re: perl / database question

2002-04-02 Thread Agustin Rivera
Unless someone can point out why it wouldn't be better, but try using the PG module. It's an easier to use module for Postgres and it makes it's queries via the DBI. Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com - Original Message - From: "Johnson, Shaunn" <[EMAIL PRO