Re: Help: Looking for an API for web-database

Richard, I've used WDB and ISQLPERL quite a bit. WDB is not very useful (read only from database, joins are combersum). ISQLPERL is great, but it only supports Perl4 (Perl5 has OO + other features). There is a DBD/DBI (beta?) available for Perl5. ISQLPERL gets my vote. I run thousands of transactions/day w/it. I also use it for a three tier java interface. Greg - DBA-Webmaster, Walt Disney PS: Also see my "onstat" web version http://nettrust.com/ifmx ------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Li (rli@scdt.intel.com) wrote: : Hi, : We want to build a web database using Netscape and Informix. We will use : Perl to write the CGI, but don't know what API/Lib we should use between : CGI and Informix. From the Informix web page, under the Freeware Solution : Available section, I saw several different free libs such as "isqlperl", : "GSQL", and "WDB". Does anybody has experience with these, or other : libraries that I am not aware of? Do you know how good these libraries : are? Please give me some suggestions. Thanks! : Informix's web page indicates that the above mentioned free libraries have : no support for inserts, updates, deletes, and BLOB data types. Does it : mean it is not safe to use them for doing insert, update, and delete?? : We must provide these functions in our database. : Thank you for your info in advance! : Richard. : ********************************** : Richard Li : Intel Corporation : rli@scdt.intel.com : **********************************