Re: DBI Help

[tachyon]

OK. Use Internet Explorer to browse your way to (probably) c:\perl\html\index.html to find all the documentation from Active State that came with Perl. Have a look at PPM. This is the Perl Package Manager that will allow you to easily install DBI and the DBD driver for MySQL. Here is how to install DBI and DBD::Mysql using PPM.

Connect to internet.
Get a DOS prompt
Type "PPM install DBI"
Hit enter
Wait
Type "PPM install DBD::Mysql"
Hit enter
Wait some more
You are Done!

You can run PPM interactively too, just type PPM at the DOS prompt and then "help" for a list of commands. You can see all the packages available (precomiled binaries ready to rock) here http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6/ For full details see the docs.

The tar.gz format is a Tape ARchived GZipped format used commonly on Unix but can be unzipped by something like WinZip. When you unzip a tar.gz file it expands the files into a directory structure. You can then use the CPAN module which is part of the standard distro to install the module. PPM is easier. See Active State Perl docs or Super Search here for "installing Modules", "Module installation", "Modules and Win32".... for more details.

cheers

tachyon

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[kjedwards]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!

Going to the command prompt and typing 
'PPM install DBI'
'PPM install DBD::Mysql'

Seemed to work great!!

I tested by connecting to a local mySQL database

Seems to work ok.

Many thanks  

Kevin