Ok, DBI & MySQL are kickin my butt right now, I've read what tutorials and documentation I could find (and those pointed out to me in the CB) and am really looking for a simple solution for this. Someone please tell me there's a cleaner/easier way to simply add a row to the table.

What I've hacked together so far: 

## table customers
#|Company
#|FirstName
#|LastName
#|PhoneNumber
#|Bill2Street
#|Bill2City
#|Bill2State
#|Bill2Zip
#|Ship2Street
#|Ship2City
#|Ship2State
#|Ship2Zip
######



my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:advance') or die "Couldn't connect t
+o database: " . DBI->errstr;

sub add_customer{
my ($company, $firstname, $lastname, $phonenumber, $bill2street, $bill
+2city, $bill2state, $bill2zip, $ship2street, $ship2city, $ship2state,
+ $ship2zip) = @_;

my $sth = $dbh->do('INSERT INTO customers VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,
+?,?)');

die "Couldn't add customer" unless defined $sth;

$sth->execute($company, $firstname, $lastname, $phonenumber, $bill2str
+eet, $bill2city, $bill2state, $bill2zip, $ship2street, $ship2city, $s
+hip2state, $ship2zip);
}

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In reply to Looking for a simpler DBI solution. by Zecho

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