On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:41:28 -0700 (PDT), Clarence Snivellwitz wrote: >Can someone tell me who authored the DBI module? I'm >trying to locate the documentation on CPAN, and I come >up with too many results when I use just use "DBI" for >the search.
You shouldn't bother the author of such a widely used module with such basic questions. If everybody did that, he wouldn't have a chance to do anything else in his life. It's a good thing you found this mailing list, if you're having any questions that you can't resolve yourself, this is the place to ask. You can start exploring at DBI's homepage; <http://dbi.perl.org>. There's a bunch of links there, with, oddly enough, one major exception: DBI's very own docs that come with the module. Well, you can find those on CPAN, at (very narrow search) <http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI>. All clickable links from the heading "Modules" downward, are documentation. Start with "DBI" and maybe "DBI::FAQ" (which appears to be on the homepage as well). If you find there's still too much to read, you can get the DBI book from O'Reilly, which gets plugged in a highly visible manner on the DBI homepage. It will cost you some money, but nothing else will get you up and running as fast as this book. -- Bart.
