I've been asked to get an Access database onto the web so that it can be searched. I already have a MySQL database and I know how to get the data onto it.

I know I can use DBI and LWP to roll my own web frontend, but surely I'm not the first to do so. I'd welcome suggestions on a recipe that could be given, say, (dbi:mysql:dbname, user, pass) and just brutally gang-search all the columns for a given term, then display (in some sort of HTML table) the records that match.

Heck, I've done it in PHP, I could always tweak it for this project, but it occurs to me there's probably a reasonably easy way to do it in Perl.

In reply to Quick way to set up a web frontend to a MySQL database? by Sylvar

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