On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Chabowski wrote:
> I'm testing mason for the first time on our servers, and although mason
> itself is working, I can't seem to get it to recognize DBI. I have
> included "use Apache::DBI;" in my handler.pl file. I have to say I'm a
> novice with DBI, so I'm probably doing something stupid. In my mason
> component file, I make a connect call in the following way: $dbh =
> DBI->connect ($dsn, $user_name, $password) || die qq{DBI error from
> connect: "$DBI::errstr"};
>
>
> I have declared $dsn as: my ($dsn) = "DBI:mysql:test_db"; and declared
> $user_name and $password in a similar fashion. I always get the following
> error message:
> Can't locate object method "connect" via package "DBI" at
> /home/www/mason_data/linguafranca/obj/mason/db_comp.mhtml line 24, <FH>
> chunk 1.
>
> Any clues as to what to try next would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for
> taking the time to look this over.
use DBI
Mason is no different than regular Perl. You still have to load the
modules you're using. Apache::DBI does not load DBI (though maybe it
should, come to think of it).
-dave
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