On 9 Mar 99, at 12:56, Jason Epstein wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any good references (web based,
> paperback, human -- whatever) for such a world. I grabbed an old book on
> PERL and have started to play around with it just for fun, but I am
> particularly interested in getting information about how to use PERL in
> conjunction with databases. Any advice and or ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
As much as I am a big fan of Perl (my first and virtually only
language), I wonder about your motive.
I consider Phillip Greenspun to be an oracle:
http://photo.net/wtr/
You will find his last and latest book online in addition to
excellent forums.
Using Perl with databases is easily accomplished via the use of DBI.
use DBMYSQL2;
(that is a module of mine which uses DBI)
my $sql = qq|
SELECT referred_by, COUNT(*) as TOT
FROM referred_by
GROUP BY referred_by
ORDER BY TOT DESC
|;
my($all,$rows) = $db->read($sql);
and boom you have your data in $all (in what I believe you would call
a reference to an array of arrays).
Learning SQL takes more time than anything (going beyond simple
selects, inserts, etc.).
But I believe that systems are important.
If I were you I would look into mod_perl. I would look into
servlets.
Peter
Might is not Right. But there is a lot of Might knocking
about in this world, and something has to be done about it.
-- King Arthur, The Once and Future King
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