in reply to Re^2: Perl XAMPP DB Connect issue (Windows/Strawberry?)
in thread Perl XAMPP DB Connect issue (Windows/Strawberry?)

I see DBD/mysql.pm includes "use DBI;", so it wasn't needed explicitly in your code in that case. However, even the DBD::mysql examples start out with "use DBI;", and the connect method induces loading the corresponding DBD module (instead of useing it explicitly). This way - at least for simple SQL - you could switch and mix database drivers by simply changing the connect string...

⇒ You might need to install DBI and/or DBD::mysql, because at least one of these two seems not to be in XAMPP's default - (see also)

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Re^4: Perl XAMPP DB Connect issue (Windows/Strawberry?)
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Dec 31, 2022 at 13:34 UTC
    I guess my concern is that if XAMPP is doing things differently in order to get a "LAMP"-like setup working on Windows, its DB.pm package must be catered for its own setup and using another package would not guarantee success. It seems I just need to figure out the right incantations for the DB package. Fortunately, I have only the one subroutine doing the database connection, so it would be a cinch to update that and make it useful for all the routines that call it.

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

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