HTML::Template->param expects an array reference of hash references. So you would need to create a structure like this 
$myarrayref = [ 
   { NAME => 'Bob' , JOB => 'Programmer'} ,
   { NAME => 'Bill' , JOB => 'Manager'} ,
];

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and use it like this. 
$template->param( EMPLOYEE_INFO => $myarrayref);

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To do this using DBI you would want to do something like the following. First fetch each row as a hash reference then push each one of these onto a array reference. Note: you will need to dereference the array reference hence the @$myarrayref. 
# Create statement handle
$sth = $dbh->prepare($somesql);

# execute statement handle
$sth->execute();

# loop through rows
while ($hashref = $sth->fethrow_hashref()) {
   push @$myarrayref , $hashref;
}

# clean up statement handle
$sth->finish();

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Once you have the array reference of hash references you can pass this to the param method of HTML::Template like so. 
$template->param(EMPLOYEE_INFO => $myarrayref);

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In reply to Re: DBI and HTML::Template by Anonymous Monk
in thread DBI and HTML::Template by czarfred

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