Re: Using Perl to query

In article <6o0b7s$2pj$1@news.xmission.com>, Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@informix.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 tedperkins@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > Hi, has anyone got a Perl script I can use via CGI to query my Informix 7.1 > > db via a form on the web. Yours Ted > > Have you considered using DBI and DBD::Informix? > > I don't have any scripts at hand, though I have developed them. The > hardest part is handling the CGI stuff (though CGI.pm is a big help!). > Handling the database is not very hard. > > There are also issues associated with regenerating the web page from which > the data was entered -- that was interesting... > > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN > > Yes, but what is for example the best way to communicate with an Informix DB when it sits on a Windows NT machine while the WWW server is on UNIX machine ? Pedro Matias -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum