Connecting To The Amember Database Via Perl

Discussion in 'Integration' started by Lisaweb, Jul 15, 2003.

  1. Lisaweb

    Lisaweb Guest

    Hi,

    Well, not only do I need to integrate the IPB Forum into aMember, I have another application, written in Perl, that I need to integrate as well.

    Would anyone know first-hand how to access a mySQL database with Perl?

    Here's the situation:

    Our members submit their URL with membership. This allows them to run reports on our website under their URL. To retrieve member data and print their reports, we currently connect our script to a members database located in a delimited text file.

    However, since we now want to use aMember, to access member data, we'll have to connect to the MySQL database that it uses instead.

    However, I have never done this before. :(

    I've already created the database and it's working with aMember perfectly. I just need to know how to code to open the database, open the members table, and grab field information from the table to be used/printed by the script.

    Thanks much for any help you can provide,
    Lisa
  2. abbeyvet

    abbeyvet New Member

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    This is probably one for Alex!

    If you can wait until he gets back from his holiday I would think he will be able to make you an addin to make this work beautifully with amember.
  3. alex-adm

    alex-adm Guest

    Hmm, it will be serious custom work to rewrite Perl application to use MySQL database. I think the Perl script author would do it
    better - may be ask him ?

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