LibWeb::Database::Mysql - Mysql database API for libweb applications

BSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows.

• No non-standard Perl's library is required.

• LibWeb::Database

  use LibWeb::Database::Mysql;
  my $db = new LibWeb::Database::Mysql();

  my ($where, $count);

  $where = 'LOGIN_STATUS = LOGGED_IN';
  $count = $db->get_count(
                           -table => USER_TABLE,
                           -where => $where
                         );

  print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
  print "$count users have logged in.";

This class provides enhanced support to MySQL database interaction in you LibWeb applications. This class also ISAs LibWeb::Database so you can use all the methods provided in LibWeb::Database via objects created from this class. See LibWeb::Database. This module is still in the stage of planning as you can tell from the number of methods available.

The current version of LibWeb::Database::Mysql is available at

   http://libweb.sourceforge.net

Several LibWeb applications (LEAPs) have be written, released and are available at

   http://leaps.sourceforge.net

Variables in all-caps (e.g. USER_TABLE) are those variables set through LibWeb's rc file. Please read LibWeb::Core for more information. Method's parameters in square brackets means optional.

get_count()

Params:

  -table =>, -where =>

Pre:

• -table is a scalar indicating a database table's name,
• -where is a scalar describing the `where' phrase of a SQL query.

Post:

• Return the number of counts satisfying the criteria specified in the -where parameter.

Colin Kong (colin.kong@toronto.edu)

LibWeb::Database.