Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:16:11 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using PERL on FreeBSD to get data from MS Access... any ideas? Message-ID: <20021006071611.GF20787@ns1.webwarrior.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c26cac$7838ac70$f69508d8@78lb019> References: <000501c26cac$7838ac70$f69508d8@78lb019>
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On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Has anyone successfully been able to work with Microsoft Access > database-stored data from PERL on a FreeBSD box? > > Here's the deal: > > We've got a rather large Microsoft Access Database, the database is used > to keep track of several leagues, their teams and players involved and all > stats regarding any of the above. We need to find a way to securely access > and display the data about the team/player stats on a per-league basis over > the internet. Posting the entire database out onto public domain would allow > anyone to download the whole thing and in essence 'steal' all the work done > to create the project over the years. This is something that the DB creator > obviously doesn't want to happen. > Any ideas on how we might be able to create pages on the server-side > (FreeBSD/Apache) of the webserver to dynamically display stats and such > information to the public? I understand fully what's rewquired on the > programming side as far as interfaces/etc, (could do this no problem if the > database was in mysql personally). The short version: need to find a > server-side solution (prefereably using PERL:DBI) which will allow a CGI > application to access a Microsoft Access database. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > nathan@vidican.com > Google turned this up, I've never used it. http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/simple_query.html Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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