in reply to Tie-DBI fails tests under Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.8.0

Yeah, cpan-testers know about this. http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=dist&dist=Tie-DBI

DBI has changed quite a few times, so that is bound to be partly responsible (the other part is lack of maintenance -- LDS just isn't maintaining Tie-DBI).

I wouldn't waste my time with Tie::DBI.

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Re: Re: Tie-DBI fails tests under Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.8.0
by AndyH (Sexton) on Mar 03, 2003 at 13:53 UTC

    Thanks for this.

    I only wanted it because Template-Toolkit uses it as its method of getting at DBI data.
    I'll just continue using my yucky "select * and stuff it into a hash" approach ...

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      The DBI plugin (which I recommend you avoid like the plague since putting SQL in the middle of your HTML is a bad practice) can optionally use Tie::DBI, but does not require it. Tie::DBI is pretty much the slowest way you can access DBI data. You'll be much better off if you simply write the SQL.
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      Is it maybe possible for you to model your data using Class::DBI derived classes? This way, you can avoid writing any SQL unless necessary, and you could just pass a couple objects to your templates.

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