Hi Monks,

I'm experimenting with a perl script to automate a couple of database creation processes. I'm aware these can be done at the mysql command line but I would nevertheless like to see how it can be done with a perl script.

Here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;

# Changed after advice from jeffa

my %conf = (
   db_type => 'mysql',
   db_name => 'new_db',
   db_user => 'root',
   db_pass => '****',
   table   => 'profile',
);


my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:$conf{db_type}:$conf{db_name}", $conf{db_u
+ser}, $conf{db_pass}, {PrintError => 0, RaiseError => 0});

create_database();
create_table();
describe_table();

sub create_database {
      $dbh->do("DROP DATABASE $conf{db_name}") ||
           warn("Warning (expected): Can't drop db '$conf{db_name}': $
+DBI::errstr");
      $dbh->do("CREATE DATABASE $conf{db_name}") ||
        die("Can't create database '$conf{db_name}': $DBI::errstr");
}

sub create_table {
      $dbh->do("USE $conf{db_name}") ||
        die("Can't use database '$conf{db_name}': $DBI::errstr");
      $dbh->do("CREATE TABLE $conf{table} (" .
             'name varchar(255) not null, ' .
            'age int, ' .
            'birthday varchar(255) not null, ' .
                        'school varchar(255) not null)') ||
        die("Can't create table '$conf{table}': $DBI::errstr");
}

sub describe_table {
  # I'm trying to get it to print out the table's
  # structure (the sort you see when you type
  # 'DESCRIBE table_name' in mysql. 
}

$dbh->disconnect();

# Success.
print "Success\n";
exit(0);
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The code creates a database and a table. I'm trying to get it to print out the table's structure (the sort you see when you type 'DESCRIBE table_name' in mysql). I've no idea how to do that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation :)

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