Hi looking for some help. And I have RTFM and searched the web!!
Server W2K with Perl and Mysql installed - only FTP access. Created a mysql table and can get some output to the screen by trying to format it in a table (see www.hcresources.co.uk/query1.pl for example).
I have read notes here suggesting use of HTML::Template or DBIx::XHTML_Table. I have tried these (with the examples provided) but I get no output to my browser. How can I run queries against the remote server to see what is installed without having direct access. I have seen lots of scripts that suggest how to do things but they never produce any output on my browser. I do not know if it is because the modules are not installed on the server or I am not formatting the information correctly.
I did go and try to buy Perl and Mysql on the web by Paul Dubois as recommended here but it was out of stock and I did not know if it was too advanced for me anyway.

An example I have tried is 
#!D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
#test4.pl

use warnings;
use strict;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
perl -MCPAN -e 
'for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./"))
{ next unless $mod->inst_file; print $mod->id," ", $mod->inst_version,
+ "\n"; }';

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Looking for some help
Regards John

In reply to Trying to output mysql query to browser by Johnny_bike

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