RE: Where to find the DBI.pm and how to get it work?

[Joe Schell]

I hope you are not new to programming.   ------ Topic one 'DBI' is a idea which provides a general purpose way to access 'database' objects.  DBI is the front end of the package and a backend is always needed.  One of the more common backends are DBD::ODBC.  I would guess you should start with this and use it to connect to a MS Access database.   Questions about DBI and databases are usually best answered on the database list.     ------- Topic two   How you get these is dependent upon what perl you really have installed.  If you have 'ActiveState' installed then you use a command called 'ppm'.   If you have another version of perl installed then probably your best best is too install it manually.  You can download the file file from CPAN.  You can find CPAN by going to www.perl.org or www.perl.com and drilling down.  Find the DBI file unzip it and read the read me files.   (The users list, this list, is the best place to get questions answered about installing modules.) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of spring.Z Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 4:19 AM To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List Subject: Where to find the DBI.pm and how to get it work? Hello :     I'm a newbie in perl program. I download a guestbook writing in perl. When I view it in my IE5.0 , I got a error message says "Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC ". I wondered if I must download a file named 'DBI.pm' .If it is true,Where I can find it? My OS is Win nt 4.0 + sp6 + perl version 5.005_03 + apache 1.3.12_win32.    And this is the whole error message: Software error: [Mon May 8 18:10:54 2000] GBVars.pm: [Mon May 8 18:10:54 2000] GBVars.pm: [Mon May 8 18:10:54 2000] DBI.pm: Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at GBVars.pm line 20. [Mon May 8 18:10:54 2000] GBVars.pm: [Mon May 8 18:10:54 2000] GBVars.pm: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at GBVars.pm line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:/usr/bin/html/cgi-bin/view.pl line 3.   Waiting for your reply. Regards                       spring.z