[ic] Accessing database from a CommonAdjust UserTag

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Kevin Walsh)]

Benjamin Hillé [benjamin@yellow.uk.net] wrote:
>
> I have been strugling to access any table with a UserTag called from
> CommonAdjust.
> From all the docs and the mails I have read, you cannot access any tables
> from a UserTag because of Safe. Only if the tables are for instance open
> before calling the userTag can you access it. Or you can use perl tag to
> pass the name of tables. Now since I am calling the UserTag from the
> CommonAdjust I cannot open any table before hand in a page and I cannot use
> perl tag (I am laready calling my usertag). What should I Do ?
> Can anyone help ?
>
You could open the table yourself, from within the UserTag, like this:

    my $db = ::database_exists_ref('sometable') or die 'Table?  what table?';
    my $resultset = $db->query($somequery) or die 'Query failed - oh no!';

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