I want to construct a basic user database on our linux server and have interactions with it via web/mail perl scripts.

My requirements go beyond the basic hash-storing file provided by the DBM routines, but are not so advanced as to require mSQL/MySQL or similar.

Basically I want a file that stores a "two dimensional hash" with the main key being the user's email address, and secondary keys being things like name, serial number, status etc. I want to be able to add/delete secondary keys easily later.

I was thinking to just build this on top of DBM by serializing the secondary hash for each record, but surely someone else must have been here before and has code I can reuse?

Anyone know of anything that may address these needs?

In reply to Basic Database? by tomazos

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