From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 13 15:23:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23932 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23925 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA28780; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:22:59 GMT Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:22:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: JB Nagar cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Accessing databases on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01BC7797.BD61C6C0@panther> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, JB Nagar wrote: > I have a web site on a FreeBSD web server. I want to develop a sample HTML program and a sample CGI or Perl program to access a database from the Server. What do I need for this. Are the sample programs available on the Net somewhere. mSQL is a popular SQL database for websites, ~ $175 I think. http://hughes.com.au DBI::DBD is a perl interface to many SQL databases, free any CPAN site. Samples are pretty slim. Use the test scripts in DBI::DBD for starters. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82