Hi,

Here's what i would do, it probably can be improved but i get some output :) 

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my $db    = "database";
my $user  = "username";
my $pass  = "password";
my $host  = "localhost";

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

my $query = ("
    SELECT 
    username 
    FROM 'sessions' 
    WHERE uid='1'
");

my $start = $dbh->prepare($query)
    or die "Preparing MySQL query failed: $DBI::errstr";

$start->execute()
    or die "The execution of the MySQL query failed: $DBI::errstr";

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

$dbh ->disconnect();

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In reply to Re^2: Problems Getting MySQL Data by longjohnsilver
in thread Problems Getting MySQL Data by Anonymous Monk

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