Quick DBI Fail Question

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

my $emps = $dbh->fetch_rowarray(
      "Insert into...."
  );
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I was looking over the DBI manual on cpan, but I can't quite figured it out. Basically what I have is an insert statement that might fail and as a result I need some fail logic...I also want to "die" in the process. I have tried a variety of ways including doing evals on the statement and trying to put a mystery $@ to see if it has values, but I haven't come across an exact answer or solution. Can anyone help me out? I will be happy to explain a bit more if I need to, but I'm sure there is a statement somewhere where if the command has an error, then be able to print (to a web browser) and then die at that line. Thanks in advanced for any help.

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Re: Quick DBI Fail Question by jZed (Prior) on Nov 07, 2007 at 23:40 UTC
> my $emps = $dbh->fetch_rowarray( "Insert into...." ); There are at least five major errors in that short snippet. Use $dbh->do("INSERT INTO ..."); The best way to get DBI to produce errors is to set $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1 in your connection. Then any errors will cause your program to die with error messages. If you want to see the messages in a browser, you'll need to use something along the lines of Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser). update The errors: 1) The method name is fetchrow_array, not fetch_rowarray 2) It is a statement handle method, not a database handle method 3) It is for fetching data from SELECT statements, not for INSERT 4) it doesn't accept SQL as a parameter. 5) It returns an array (go figure), not a scalar.	[reply]
Re: Quick DBI Fail Question by KurtSchwind (Chaplain) on Nov 07, 2007 at 23:42 UTC
Since you aren't expecting a result set, you should'nt use fetch_rowarray. Use 'do' instead. `$dbh->do("insert into ....") or die ("Ack! Insert failed!");` [download] -- I used to drive a Heisenbergmobile, but every time I looked at the speedometer, I got lost.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Quick DBI Fail Question by Trihedralguy (Pilgrim) on Nov 08, 2007 at 00:23 UTC
I will have to read up on the difference between do and fetch...The code snippet was just kind of an example I forgot to remove... I have one more question then...In the "die" statement, how can I go about making that more or less print html. I've tried to do "die " print qq^ 'html with quotes goes here' ^";, But I know that cannot work.	[reply]
Re^2: Quick DBI Fail Question by jZed (Prior) on Nov 08, 2007 at 00:56 UTC
If you set RaiseError in the connection, it will die and print automatically - you don't need to specifically trap or print them. See Carp for how to make the errors appear in a browser.	[reply]