Hi Monks

I'm trying to write a perl script to connect to a mysql database. There're a few things which I've no answers to and as a result I'm not able to proceed. I've read the chapter on The Perl DBI API (MySQL by Paul Dubois) and tutorials from a couple of internet sites.

I just need to know how to connect to the database file(s). Here are the things I've done:

1) I've OMNI HTTPd server installed in my windows 98 box. I've no problems running my other perl cgi scripts.

2) I've installed MySQL at c:\mysql (the default directory). I've used it to create a couple of test databases so it's running ok.

3) I've installed perl DBI and perl DBD::mysql. These modules are installed at c:\perl5.6\site\lib

4) I created a script and placed it at c:\httpd\cgi-bin directory (the usual directory I put my perl cgi scripts)

5) I created a mysql test database with mysql commands. The files created reside somewhere in the mysql directory.

My questions are:

1) How do I get the script to connect to the test database I've created?

2) Do I need to move those database files from the mysql directory to the directory where the perl script is (i.e. to c:\httpd\cgi-bin)?

I'm totally lost and hope someone can point me in the right direction :)

Thanks in advance :)

In reply to Using mysql with perl by kiat

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