The following lines kinda jumped out at me, from about the middle of the first batch of code: 

    # we're fetching a single value (name), so we can call fetchrow_ar
+ray()
    # in a scalar context to get the value
    while (my $item_id = $sth->fetchrow_array ())

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Try changing the third line of that to: 

    while (my ($item_id) = $sth->fetchrow_array ())

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I'm not sure if DBI's fetchrow_array() uses wantarray or not, but it looks like $item_id is getting set to scalar $sth->fetchrow_array (), which is not what you want.

So change that line, and let me know if it worked.

Update: Just saw poj's post. s?he's right. Ignore my suggestion.


LAI
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In reply to Re: Displaying Images using Perl by LAI
in thread Displaying Images using Perl by b310

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