Required Tools
To work through the material in this chapter, you should have the following software installed:
The MySQL server, if you’re going to run a server yourself. If you want to use a server run by someone else, that’s okay, too.
The mysql command-line client program. (This is part of the MySQL distribution.)
The Apache Web server
Perl 5; make sure you also have the following modules installed as well: CGI.pm, DBI, and DBD::mysql (the MySQL-specific driver for DBI). We’ll use mod_perl later, but it’s not necessary for this chapter.
The versions I’m using currently are MySQL 3.23.39, Apache 1.3.19, Perl 5.005_03, CGI.pm 2.74, DBI 1.18, and DBD::mysql 1.2216.
The next two sections show how to make sure the database and Web servers are properly ...
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