On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:56:39 +0000, Dillon, John wrote:
>> I�m new with perl. I need to write a program that reads data out of a
>> form
>> sent via internet and is able to interpret the data. I have written the
>> form in html. Is perl right for the other parts? How can I do this
>> easyly? Are there any pre-witten programs or modules existing for that?
> PHP is what I use.
Why do you post PHP code in a Perl newsgroup?
> www.php.net is easier than anything I've found on perl.
You mean that that the web-site www.php.net is easier than anything found
on the programming language perl? Explain.
> See also database language on the slightly confusing www.mysql.com.
How is the web-site www.mysql.com confusing? Explain. And what has that
got to do with Perl?
> PHP database query looks like this:
>
> $myquery = "SELECT table.field FROM table WHERE table.field = '$variable'";
> $result = mysql_db_query($db, $myquery, $connection) or die ("myquery failed.");
> $arr = array();
> $x = 0;
> while(list($a) = mysql_fetch_array($result))
> {
> $arr[$x] = $a;
> $x++;
> }
This code isn't safe, but that's not PHP's fault. What happens if
$variable is messed with?
Similary job is done with only one line using Perl's DBI module, and this
code is even secure compared to the PHP code above:
my $arr = $dbh->selectcol_arrayref('SELECT field FROM table WHERE field = ?',
undef, $variable);
> Variables are GETed or POSTed automatically with the form on submit.
That has nothing to do with the programming language on the server side,
actually, but is a part of the HTTP implementation.
> You can use regex's also.
So can Perl, right?
> While this is off-topic re Perl, [...]
It really is!
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