Re: Perl interface

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Thomas Holmgren wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I would like to extract data from my postgreSQL7.0 database and present
> them on a web-page. I want to use CGI scripts written in Perl. How do I
> connect to and query the DB from Perl? A reference to a tutorial or some
> sort of documentation would be highly appreciated! :))
>
> I am familiar with both Perl and databases.

Hallo Thomas,

I do that for a living at the moment!  Check out my page at:
www.opensystems.org
for links to docs, sample scripts, modules, etc.

The Man, in this instance is Lincoln Stein, PhD, - he wrote CGI.pm
and has a good book:  Official Guide To Programming the CGI.pm

Do a search on Yahoo or whatever:  CGI.pm
Click on Lincoln Stein's page to find the ISBN for the book.
About $28 (perhaps less from Amazon).
My page has his scripts... ;-)

If you want to see some of my code (more involved than the rudimentary
samples) send some mail to hackers@admin.nrnet.org
Also, have a look at:  www.simtax.ca/acc - this is SQL Ledger, an
Open Source accounting package.  Dieter Simader is the author and
a nice guy as well.

Cheers,
Tom

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