Dear Monks,

I have been working on this for 4 days straight. I'm trying to get MySQL data. I've done it before in PHP but never in Perl. I can "show tables" (so I can access the DB) but nothing else works. Even using use CGI::Carp I just always get a blank page.

use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$db ="my_webapp2";
$user = "my_user";
$pass = "password";
$host="localhost";

$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db:$host", $user, $pass);
    or die "Connecting to MySQL database failed: $DBI::errstr";

$SQLq = ("SELECT username FROM 'sessions' WHERE uid='1'");
$start = $dbh->prepare($SQLq)
    or die "Preparing MySQL query failed: $DBI::errstr
";
$start->execute()
    or die "The execution of the MySQL query failed: $DBI::errstr";

$result = $start->fetchrow_hashref();
print "Ta-da!: $result->{username}\n";
while ($row = $start->fetchrow_hashref());

$dbh ->disconnect();

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