The Perl DBI
module provides a generic interface
for database access. You can write a DBI script that works with many
different database engines without change. To use DBI, you must
install the DBI
module, as well as a DataBase
Driver (DBD) module for each type of server you want to access. For
MySQL, this driver is the DBD::mysql
module.
Perl DBI is the recommended Perl interface. It replaces an older
interface called mysqlperl
, which should be
considered obsolete.
Installation instructions for Perl DBI support are given in Section 2.14, “Perl Installation Notes”.
DBI information is available at the command line, online, or in printed form:
Once you have the DBI
and
DBD::mysql
modules installed, you can get
information about them at the command line with the
perldoc
command:
shell>perldoc DBI
shell>perldoc DBI::FAQ
shell>perldoc DBD::mysql
You can also use pod2man
,
pod2html
, and so forth to translate this
information into other formats.
For online information about Perl DBI, visit the DBI Web site,
http://dbi.perl.org/. That site hosts a general
DBI mailing list. Oracle Corporation hosts a list specifically
about DBD::mysql
; see
Section 1.7.1, “MySQL Mailing Lists”.
For printed information, the official DBI book is Programming the Perl DBI (Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce, O'Reilly & Associates, 2000). Information about the book is available at the DBI Web site, http://dbi.perl.org/.
For information that focuses specifically on using DBI with MySQL, see MySQL and Perl for the Web (Paul DuBois, New Riders, 2001). This book's Web site is http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-perl/.
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