Spidy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know where I could find a good, easy to understand tutorial on using Perl and mySQL? I just bought a couple books (Camel,Ram, etc.), and am too broke to buy books to learn it, and the manpages confuse me. Anyone have any ideas or links?

Thanks,
Spidy

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Re: Perl/mySQL tutorials?
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2004 at 03:52 UTC

    You can't do better than gmax's DBI recipes. It's a cookbook style summary which was best-of-the-year here until the year ran out.

    One of the strengths is that it is not specifically for mysql.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

Re: Perl/mySQL tutorials?
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 10, 2004 at 04:14 UTC
Re: Perl/mySQL tutorials?
by jfroebe (Parson) on Oct 10, 2004 at 05:02 UTC

    Don't forget used books... You can usually get it for 1/4th the price or less. Whether Amazon Market Place, eBay, or elsewhere, you will often find super cheap books for a few bucks.

    Jason L. Froebe

    No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

      That's right. And I know you said you're broke but these are well worth the money: MySQL Cookbook, MySQL (2nd Ed is necessary if you have 4), MySQL and Perl for the Web. Paul DuBois writes in a clear, thorough style. Some reviewers have commented that his MySQL is the best programming book written on any subject.

Re: Perl/mySQL tutorials?
by Father Jack (Initiate) on Oct 10, 2004 at 03:45 UTC
      That page is basicly nothing more a link to http://dbi.perl.org so why not just link directly. :)
        Because maybe Spidy didn't realize that the mysql site has lots of useful information
Re: Perl/mySQL tutorials?
by Spidy (Chaplain) on Oct 10, 2004 at 17:54 UTC
    Wow, thanks for the help everyone!