Hi Monks!
I am trying to write a small module to have my sql connection separated from the rest of my applications just in case information like password or username need to be changed.
I am having issues, and I am wondering if someone would have something similar that could help me with what I have.
Here is the module:
#--------------------------------------------------------------
# my module.
#--------------------------------------------------------------
package ModTest;
require Exporter;

our @ISA     = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT  = qw( mysql_connect);
our $VERSION = 1.00;

use Carp qw( confess );
use DBI;

sub connect_mysql {

  my $hostname = "mysql.page.com";   
  my $username = "myusername";   
  my $password = "mypassword";   
  my $database = "mydatabase";

 my $dbh = \DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname"
+,$username,$password) 

#bles $dbh;                                                         ||
+ confess "Connect to $db failed: $DBI::errstr";
return $dbh;

}

1;

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Here is my test Perl script to test the connection:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); 
use ModTest;

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

my $sql_dbh = ModTest->connect_mysql();

my $sql = "SELECT * FROM my_table";
my $st = $dbh->prepare($sql)
    or die "Preparing MySQL query failed: $DBI::errstr";

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

while ($row = $st->fetchrow_hashref())
{
    print " $row->{first} $row->{last}";
}

$dbh ->disconnect();

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Thanks for the help!

In reply to SQL Module Connection Help! by Anonymous Monk

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