>-----Original Message----- >From: Jennifer Ahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 18 January 2008 20:07 >To: The elegant MVC web framework >Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Documentation on DBIx Class > >Where is a good place to learn DBIx::Class in a few hours? > >I've always used the DBI module for my CGI scripts.
http://search.cpan.org/~ash/DBIx-Class-0.08008/lib/DBIx/Class/Manual/DocMap. pod It's a shortcut on my browser navbar :-) Read the first four links then browse the cookbook. The DBIC list is at http://lists.scsys.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class/ and that's the place to ask any questions. The main thing to realize compared to DBI is that DBIC works in terms of resultsets (a bit like MS Access recordsets) and that you can apply actions to a notional set of records. The power of this is that you can chain these actions or filters without writing the typical code to retrieve records, stick them in a hash, retrieve more records, prune the hash, and so on. Also it works (much) better under mod_perl than Class::DBI when you have multiple database connections. It can get a bit hairy prefetching with multiple joins, but there's nothing to stop you asking DBIC for the DBI database handle and doing complicated SQL direct the DBI way. Regards, Peter http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
