A Short Perl DBI Example

Listing D.1 connects to a server, prepares a query with a placeholder, binds a number of values to this placeholder, and then loops through each row and each query to display the results.

Listing D.1: example.pl

start example
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;  # you don't have to use strict, but you should! use DBI;     # the main module # set variables with the connection details my $hostname = 'localhost'; my $database = 'firstdb'; my $username = 'guru2b'; my $password = 'g00r002b'; #Connect to the database  my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:$database:$hostname", $username, $password); # Define and prepare the query, with the ? specifying a bind variable. my $sql = q{SELECT first_name,surname FROM customer WHERE id=?}; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); # Create an array of id's to use to replace the placeholder my @ids = (1,4,5,6); # Loop through the array and execute the query for(@ids) {   $sth->bind_param(1, $_, SQL_INTEGER);   $sth->execute();   my( $first_name, $surname);   $sth->bind_columns(undef, \$first_name, \$surname);   # Loop through the rows returned and display the results   while( $sth->fetch()) {     print "$first_name $surname\n";   } } $sth->finish(); $dbh->disconnect;
end example



Mastering MySQL 4
Mastering MySQL 4
ISBN: 0782141625
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 230
Authors: Ian Gilfillan

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