Re: Perl "use"

[August Detlefsen <augustd@idiom.com>]

Why don't you just define the database in catalog.cfg and then access it
with regular minived tags?

-August
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Kyle Hayes wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>     ******
> 
> Kim,
> 
> Safe is designed to prevent you from leaving a safe little sandbox.
> Connecting to a database is definitely outside the sandbox.  You probably
> should put this code into a UserTag or use the tag_data() call.
> 
> Best,
> Kyle
> 
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Kim Armann wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Kim Armann <kim@nichols.de>     ******
> >
> > Hi, I want to make an SQL-Connect with embedded Perl to a MySQL database
> > like
> > <PRE mv=perl>
> >         use DBI;
> >         $dbart = 'mysql';
> >         $dbname = 'xxx';
> >         $dbuser = 'minivend';
> >         $dbpass = 'xxx';
> >         $db = DBI->connect ($dbname, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dbart);
> >         if (!$db)       { return "Kann nicht verbinden $DBI::errstr\n";
> > }
> >       else ....
> > </PRE>
> > but I get
> > .../search Safe: require trapped by operation mask at (eval 78) line 2.
> > what does it mean? I tried with $Safe{DBI}; ... but no result.
> >
> >   Kim Armann
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