[97905] in RedHat Linux List
RE: MySQL tutorial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Thu Nov 5 18:04:39 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:58:15 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 12:14 1998-11-05 -0000, Ed Lazor wrote:
>I was wondering... I'm trying to teach myself how to use postgreSQL and
how
>to interface it with the web. Do you have anything that might help me?
I'm
>able to get in, create databases and stuff manually using pql. I have cgi
>turned on for the web server. I've heard of something called pm that's
>supposed
>to be an interface for cgi to postgreSQL. Are you familiar with it? Do
>you know how I could get a copy of it? Could I get copies of some your
>html / cgi to look at as examples of how to communicate back and forth?
>Are there other items besides pm that you use that may be better and if
>so, could I also get copies/examples?
I use the Pg.pm module and perl CGI scripts. I bought "Learning Perl" from
O'Reilly, and an SQL book from Amazon.com, then used the examples on the
Pg.pm man page to get started. If you're familiar with perl and SQL, it's
not hard at all.
I found PHP and other tools to have just as much of a learning curve as
learning perl and you have to know some SQL anyway. So I just learned some
perl. I'll be able to use that knowledge for other projects, while other
Web/db tools are only good for one thing.
Tony
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