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Raimi (raimi@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:51:41 +0200 (MET DST) 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:51:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Raimi <raimi@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: hello ....
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990417013657.5246C-100000@cerberus.cs.tu-berlin.de>

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Alexander (Sasha) Bucur wrote:

Hello!

[..]
> web-base data presentation and I wanted to find a way to use it via
> some type of dynamic web pages.
>
> I'd like to use PERL to control the server interaction so any pointers
> in that direction would be helpful as well.

It seems that many people on this list use native w3-msql and/or lite for
scripting. I am not one of them. To use Perl (Perl is the language, perl
is the executable, there is no word such as PERL :-) I recommend the
documentation of the related modules you can find on CPAN (www.cpan.org).
To name some: DBI (the perl database abstraction layer) and the
Msql-Mysql module. Especially the last one gives a pretty good
introduction on using the database. Furthermore consider the various CGI
modules for the web-part. The documentation of most modules in enough.

One advice: If you plan to do complex stuff from server-side scripts keep
in mind that perl scripts are compiled at runtime. I have a webforum
running that needs 8s to compile and 0s to run on an old SUN Sparc 2.

For such tasks you might find FastCGI useful (compile once, run forever).
The problem with this one is that it is not very well supported in the
webservers. Apache does not include it by default AFAIK and Roxen
Challenger's support is a bit buggy (functional, though).

If you want to do simple stuff, consider php3 or lite.... They are
interpreted and have a good database connectivity.

I hope that helped you a bit,

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