I'm sure this has come up before, however I think I'll ask again just in case. I'm trying to get my web page running like so many others do where I can just type my update into a form, it throws that information into a mysql database, then the front page pulls the last say... 3 entries from the database and displays them on the front page. I'm having trouble trying to figure out where to even start, so far I have this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;
use strict;

my @list = '';

print header;
print start_html;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:test') or die "Trouble opening datab
+ase: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT name, data, ID FROM frog WHERE ID like
+ '%'") or die "Trouble preparing statement: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

$sth->execute() or die "Trouble executing statement: $DBI::errstr; sto
+pped";

while ( my ($blankfield, $data) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
push @list, $data;
}

my $i = $#list;
while ($i >= ($#list - 2)) {
   print $list[$i--], "<BR>\n";
}

$dbh->disconnect();


print end_html;

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It runs a lot slower than it should, and I'm not sure why. Also, if there are multiple columns in my database, I don't know how to associate the columns with each other. Right now I can only pull up data from one column (the script is getting data from the first 2 columns, ignoring the first, and only saving what's in the second. That's intentional because I had no other idea how to do this). Any ideas on this?

In reply to [untitled node, ID 41059] by Anonymous Monk

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