Hi, I'm just having a play around to build my own SQL.pm file, which would let me have easy access to running SQL commands (without having to do long winded DBI coding). This isn't a necessity, but more of a "project" I just wanted to do, to get a bit of experience with writing my own OO module. Here is what I have in AndySQL.pm:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

package AndySQL;

sub new {
     my $self = {};
     bless $self, "AndySQL";
     my ($ignore,$user,$pass,$host,$port,$database,$debug) = @_;
     $self->{connect} = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:$database:localhost:33
+06", $user, $pass) || die $DBI::errstr;
     $self->{debug}   = $debug;
     return $self;
}


sub disconnect {
    
}

sub table {
    my ($self,$table) = @_;
    $self->{table} = $table;
    return $self;
}

sub select_options {
    my ($self,$opts) = @_;
    $self->{select_options} = $opts;
    return $self;
}


sub count {
    
    my ($self,$args) = @_;
    
    $self->{table} || die "No table defined!";
    my $select_options = $self->{select_options} || '';
    
    my @cond_vals;
    my @cond_fields;
    if (ref $args eq "HASH") {
        map { 
            push @cond_fields, "$_ = ?";
            push @cond_vals, $args->{$_};
        } keys %$args;
    }
    
    my ($cond_string,$query);
    if ($cond_fields[0]) {
        $cond_string = "WHERE " . join " AND ", @cond_fields;
        $query = qq|SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $self->{table} $cond_string $
+select_options|;
    } else {
        $query = qq|SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $self->{table} $select_option
+s|;
    }
    
    print "Query: $query \n" if $self->{debug};
    
    my $sth = $self->{connect}->prepare($query);
       $sth->execute(@cond_vals);
    my $total = $sth->fetchrow() || 0;
    $sth->finish();

    return $total;
}

sub select {
}

sub delete {
}

sub do_query {
}

1;
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Then in test.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    
    use AndySQL;
    
    # CONFIG VARIABLES
    my $database     = "blog_counter";
    my $host         = "localhost";
    my $port         = "3306";
    my $user         = "dev";
    my $pass         = "123foobar84!?";
    
    my $DB = AndySQL->new($user,$pass,$host,$port,$database,1);
    
    my $tbl = $DB->table('Page_Counter');
       $tbl->select_options("LIMIT 50");
    
    my $total = $tbl->count();
    
    print "Total found: $total \n";
    
    my $tbl2 = $DB->table('Testing');
       $tbl2->select_options("LIMIT 50");
       
    my $total = $tbl2->count();
    
    print "Total found: $total \n";
    
    my $total2 = $tbl->count();    
    
    print "Total found: $total2 \n";
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This works to a point. The first 2 run ok, but then when I go back and try to use $tbl, the "table" gets reset back to the first one ("Page_Counter"). How can I make it so that I can re-use the Page_Counter table, even after setting a new value in the 2nd function? Hopefully that makes sense ;) TIA! Andy

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