Spring 2010 Andalusia Fire School

Here are some images from my Fire School Classes in Andalusia. We had a great turnout, excellent weather, and a great group of guys and gals. Enjoy.

Quick Tip – How to Connect to MySQL using Perl

This is a Quick Tip on how to connect to a MySQL database using Perl. Even though many other languages are sneaking their way onto Perl’s turf. There is still a great demand for Perl on the web, so don’t forget one of it’s primary uses. Here’s the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;

$database = “DATABASENAME”;
$hostname = “db.DOMAIN”;
$port = “3306?;
$username = “USERNAME”;
$password = ‘PASSWORD’;

$dsn = “DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port”;

$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $username, $password) or die(”Could not connect!”);

$dbh->disconnect;

First we have to tell perl to use the DBI module. Define our variables. Then define the database information. Finally we’re able to connect to our database. This could be done in one line, but you’ll find that most people prefer to connect their scripts this way for clarity. That’s all. Thanks for reading

Quick Tip – How to connect to MySQL with PHP

This is a Quick Tip on how to connect to MySQL with PHP. We have all done it from time to time, but sometimes we forget just how to connect to those pesky MySQL databases directly using PHP. So here’s how it’s done:
<?php
function open( ){$db = mysql_connect( ‘localhost’, ‘root’, ‘password’ );
} ?>

Here we have custom a function “open”. Followed by the mysql_connect function which we will supply the url, username, and password. It’s pretty simple to do in PHP. Thanks for reading