Re: [aclug-L] Need topic suggestions

[Roger Jolicoeur <komula@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Specifically, I'm interested in dynamically creating HTML pages using CGI
& SQL, as well as uploading information from HTML forms to a database
on the server.   I'd like the pages to have database content
including BLOB objects.  I'm planning on using Perl, but might opt
for C because I've heard that it offers better performance.  Perl
would be nice though, because there's allot of scripts already available. 
I've got several good books on the subject but would still like to hear
someone explain the basic concepts.  (ex. Where everything needs to
be to work properly, which features need to be activated, advantages or
disadvantages of various approaches)  I've never done this before
and it's a little intimidating.   ~ :-o

Clint A. Brubakken wrote:

What do you want to do with this?
Administrate a Database via the web?
Authenticate from a database?
Access a DataBase via a CGI program?

For the first, there are several program already wrote that do that.
for mysql check out MyAdmin.cgi  http://www.tcx.se
 

For Authentication look into mod_perl http://perl.apache.org ,
and the Apache::DBI module (which comes with:
o AuthenDBI.pm provides authentication
o AuthzDBI.pm  provides authorization
o DBI.pm provides persistent database connections
o DebugDBI.pm enables debugging
) just make sure you have the DBI perl module and DBD module for the
database you use from http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/ (if not
already installed)

Apache:DBI and DBI, is also good for writting perl programs that
access a databse.

There are similar things "I Think" for python, C ,etc

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Wichita, KS
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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Brian Chapman wrote:

> actually, this would interest me also :)
>
> At 5/10/99 11:31 PM , Roger Jolicoeur wrote:
> > John:    I'd be interested in learning more about connecting Apache to a
> > Database via CGI.  I realize that's a pretty huge topic, but just covering
> > the basics would be very helpfull.
> >
> > Roger Jolicoeur
> > komula@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <aclug-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 12:02 AM
> > Subject: [aclug-L] Need topic suggestions
> >
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >So far the only topic suggestion I have for the meeting the 18th is
> > >security.  Are there any others?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >John
> > >
> >
>
>