I have a website which is already working. I have decided to chnage my hosting company. But i am having a problem getting my perl script working.

If you click on the link below it displays a list of all proeprties: http://www.goarealestates.com/cgi-bin/housing.pl?search=1&category=Buy&;submit=Go!!!

Within my script file, i have a statement as below which connects to the database 

$dbh = db_connect($database,$user,$password);

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And the function db_connect() is as below:- 
sub db_connect {
   ($database,$user,$password) = @_;
   my $h = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database", $user, $password)
   or printError("Unable to connect to $database" . $DBI::errstr);
   return $h;
}

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I have also got a db.cfg file which is as below 
# script config file
 $database = "shafi";
 $user = "shafi"; 
 $password ="shafi";
1;

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But the present hosting provider has given an example of how to connect to the mysql database as below:- 
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$db_handle = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:database=dbxxxxxxxx;host=dbxxx.on
+eandone.co.uk;user=dboxxxxxxxx;password=xxxxxxxx")
    or die "Couldn't connect to database: $DBI::errstr\n";

    $sql = "SELECT * FROM puretest";
    $statement = $db_handle->prepare($sql)
    or die "Couldn't prepare query '$sql': $DBI::errstr\n";

    $statement->execute()
    or die "Couldn't execute query '$sql': $DBI::errstr\n";
    while ($row_ref = $statement->fetchrow_hashref())
          {
              print "Name <b>$row_ref->{name}</b> has email address::<
+b>$row_ref->{email}</b>.<br>";
           }

    $db_handle->disconnect();
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The DBI->connect statement is different and deosnt seem to work. Could someone tell me how my function should change to adapt to this hsoting provider.

Code tags added by Arunbear

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