perl connect MySQL

[JohnDavidHanna]

Hello
I cant get my PHP to work on Apache MySQL on XP and have changed to perl CGI.
Does anyone know the Db connect string since I dont have a book or DBI and DBI looks like a real pain.
Regards

[ovidiucucu]

Does this link help you?

[JohnDavidHanna]

Thanks
Will try the ODBC although that seems to be an indirect but
is certainly a helpful link!
Regards

[JohnDavidHanna]

Hello

Actually, I just ended up making a C++ console apps with afxdb.h and used my argv command line to import the arguments.
They can be called easily with perl system and are already connected ODBC


My MS IDE makes the query easy to formulate.
The returns are easy to format from recordset to CString array
returned with cout and the perl autoarray picks it up just fine!

Later