I ran into the exactly same situtation with my web site. However, it's possible (albiet nonoptimal) to get MySQL access in Perl via PHP...in sql.php: 
<?php
// This is a hack to get around F2S's limitation of only allowing PHP-
+MySQL
$connect = mysql_connect("db.account.f2s.com:3306", "account", "passwo
+rd")
    or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_db_query("account", $query, $connect);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    echo "{\n";
    while(list ($key, $value) = each($row))
    {
        echo "\t$key => q[$value],\n";
    }
    echo "},\n";
}
?>

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Then in your Perl program: 
sub sql_query
{
    my ($query) = @_;
    my ($data_structure, @data);
    # Ugly kluge to get SQL to work via Perl instead of PHP
    $query = url_encode($query); # TODO: use standard function
    $data_structure = get("http://www.account.f2s.com/sql.php?query=$q
+uery");
    @data = eval "($data_structure)";
    return @data;
}

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Hope this helps..oh and by the way, I believe Spaceports.com supports Perl and MySQL, though you have to request it (I requested a CGI account but they never received one, maybe you'll have more luck.)

In reply to Re: Perl vs. PHP: databases by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl vs. PHP: databases by elusion

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