it seems that i'm bashing heads with dbi here. i need to bind_columns to an array. now while it seems that this was never meant to happen:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-dev@perl.org/msg03906.html
... and there's probably a more elegant way to solve this in sql itself, i am not good enough with nested select statements to figure it out (or maybe union) and still think that i wouldn't know exactly what i'm returning - hence the array. i've tried the two methods they state here
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=284436
with the same results. here is my (not so pretty) code:
my ($sth, $query, $select, $from, $where, $likedate, $join, $s
+elmin, $selmax, $min, $max, @sogs);
$key =~ s/\'/\\\'/g;
$select = qq/SELECT FLOOR( MIN( n.x ) ), FLOOR( MAX( n.x
+ ) ) /;
$from = qq/FROM o, n /;
$where = qq/WHERE MATCH( o.owner, o.mn, o.manag
+er ) AGAINST( '+$key' IN BOOLEAN MODE ) /;
$likedate = qq/AND n.time LIKE '$date%' /;
$join = qq/AND o.key = n.key /;
$query = $select . $from . $where . $likedate . $join;
$sth = $dbh->prepare( $query );
$sth->execute;
$sth->bind_columns( $selmin, $selmax );
while( $sth->fetch ) {
if ( !defined( $min ) || !defined( $max ) ) {
$min = $selmin;
$max = $selmax;
}
$min = $selmin if $selmin < $min;
$max = $selmax if $selmax > $max;
}
my $countif = "";
for my $i ( $min .. $max ) {
$countif .= qq/COUNT( IF( FLOOR( n.x ) = $i,1,null ) )
+ /;
}
$select = qq/SELECT $countif /;
$from = qq/FROM o, n /;
$where = qq/WHERE MATCH( o.owner, o.mn, o.manag
+er ) AGAINST( '+$key' IN BOOLEAN MODE ) /;
$likedate = qq/AND n.time LIKE '$date%' /;
$join = qq/o.key = n.key /;
$query = $select . $from . $where . $likedate . $join;
$sth = dbh->prepare( $query );
$sth->execute;
$sth->bind_columns( map {$_} @sogs );
while( $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {
print "$key,";
for( 1 .. $min ) {
print ",";
}
print join( ',', @sogs ), "\n";
}
my error, no matter how i try to return arrays is pretty much the same
Can't DBI::st=HASH(0x1aa7a40)->bind_col(1, undef,...), need a referenc
+e to a scalar at /usr/lib/perl5/DBI.pm line 1867, <FILE> line 56.
heh, and it's quite stupid of me to redefine half of my select statement when i don't have to.....