Well, to answer your question, I would like to write this site/set of perl scripts to be able to handle almost any amount of data it's given, maybe not quite like a corporate scale type thing, but something with say, 100+ users, a couple thousand messages, and many many many images and a lot of text.

I'd like to be able to use a module to use functions like update(), insert(), delete(), selectFrom(), etc, so I'd like to be able to display AND edit database data.

Mainly, I want a class that will pretty much handle all my database needs for me. A class that will be able to be accessed from the appropriate modules, such as a page module that would get the data from the database, and format it just so, along with a message script that would take the form data and insert it into the database as a new message, or a reply, or a user script that would update user info, or an admin script to delete, remove, edit, etc. messages and users.

Is that slighly more clear? I'm sorry for it being so vague, I was just trying to keep it general and open.

Thanks very much for all the help, just let me know what you need to know to help me.
dhoss

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