HelloMySQL.pl - My First Perl Program with MySQL

This section describes a tutorial example on how use the DBI->connect() function to connect Perl scripts to MySQL database server.

Now we are ready to write a Perl program using the DBI module to access MySQL server. Here my first example, HelloMySQL.pl:

# HelloMySQL.pl
#- Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
   use DBI;
   $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:test");
   $dbh->do("create table hello (message varchar(80))");
   $dbh->do("insert into hello (message) values ('Hello world!')");
   $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from hello");
   $sth->execute();
   while ((@row) = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
      print "$row[0]\n";
   }
   $sth->finish();
   $dbh->do("drop table hello");
   $dbh->disconnect();
   exit;

Let's start MySQL server, and run HelloMySQL.pl:

herong> perl HelloMySQL.pl
Hello world!

Congratulations, all required software and additional modules are working.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Perl on Linux Systems

 ActivePerl on Windows Systems

 Data Types: Values and Variables

 Expressions, Operations and Simple Statements

 User Defined Subroutines

 Perl Built-in Debugger

 Name Spaces and Perl Module Files

 Symbolic (or Soft) References

 Hard References - Addresses of Memory Objects

 Objects (or References) and Classes (or Packages)

 Typeglob and Importing Identifiers from Other Packages

 String Built-in Functions and Performance

 File Handles and Data Input/Output

 Open Files in Binary Mode

 Open Directories and Read File Names

 File System Functions and Operations

 Image and Picture Processing

 Using DBM Database Files

Using MySQL Database Server

 Installing Database Module for MySQL

HelloMySQL.pl - My First Perl Program with MySQL

 Socket Communication Over the Internet

 XML::Simple Module - XML Parser and Generator

 XML Communication Model

 SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module

 Perl Programs as IIS Server CGI Scripts

 CGI (Common Gateway Interface)

 XML-RPC - Remote Procedure Call with XML and HTTP

 RPC::XML - Perl Implementation of XML-RPC

 Integrating Perl with Apache Web Server

 CGI.pm Module for Building Web Pages

 LWP::UserAgent and Web Site Testing

 Converting Perl Script to Executable Binary

 Managing Perl Engine and Modules on macOS

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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