Hi

I want to print an error if any DBI functions fail, but
all that happens is I get apache errors.

In the code below, if the SQL insert statement(or connect for that matter) fails I get an "Internal Server error" from apache instead of my print statement.
The apache logs explains why the error occured eg duplicate field, but I want to show the error on the browser.
use strict ;
use CGI qw(param);
use diagnostics ;

sub init {
# Constants
my $db = "edb";
my $server = "localhost";
my $user = "localuser";
my $password = "localpasswd";


# CGI Parameters
my $Id = param("ID");
my $Fname = param("Fname");
# Connect to database
$dbh->{RaiseError} = 1;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db:$server", $user,$password);

if (! $dbh) {
    print "Could not connect to $db on $server\n";
}
# Prepare and run the query
my $query="INSERT INTO clients values( \"$Fname\",\"$Id\") ;";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare_cached("$query") or die "Can't prepare stateme
+nt: $dbh->errstr \n";
$sth->execute or die "Can't execute statement", $dbh->errstr ;

$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect();
    
} # End 
int();

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I have the following setup
Apache 1.3.23
Mod_perl 1.26
Apache::DBI 0.88
AuthMySQL 2.20
Perl 5.6.0
MySQL 3.23.49

Thanks Paul

In reply to Printing DBI errors from a CGI script by PB

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