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Perl and databases

Asked by catonthecouchproductions in Perl Programming Language

I have a script that an expert here helped me write and I am trying to get it now to create the TABLE in the database, any suggestions?

I am stuck on that part, the writing.

I have the script here - http://elan.champlain.edu/~rcoughlin32001/cgi-bin/table.cgi

I placed in all of my connection information, etc. I want to write this to the DB:

            >> print(" CREATE TABLE $table( $tableFields );");

Thanks!
RyanStart Free Trial 
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;
print "Content-type:text/html \n\n";
 
 
# Ryan Coughlin
# Server Side Scripting
# Breaks code down in to subs
# sub header - print out top HTML code (body tags)
# sub footer - ends HTML page
# sub first  - enter table name and number of fields
# sub second - enter details on each field
# sub three  - prints out SQL create table code
 
# connection details for connection to database
 
$database = "assignments";
$username = "web320";
$password = "web320pass";
 
# make connection string
 
$dsn      = "DBI:mysql:$database:localhost";
 
# make actual connection
 
$dbh=DBI->connect($dsn,$username,$password); # if a password is not required renove $password
 
 
 
 
my $step = param('step') || "START"; # what step are you on
 
if( $step eq "Create Table")
{
      my $table   = param('tableName')   || "TEST";    # table name
      my $fields  = param('fieldCount')  || 0;         # number of fields
      third($table,$fields);
}
elsif( $step eq "Submit")
{
      my $table   = param('tableName');                # table name
      my $fields  = param('fieldCount') || 0;          # number of fields
 
      second("table.cgi","post",$table, $fields);
}
else
{
      first("table.cgi","post");
}
footer();
 
##logic ends here. Only subroutines follow
 
sub header{
my ($pageTitle,$headCode)=@_;
 
print <<HEADER;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>$pageTitle</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
$headCode
</head>
 
<body>
HEADER
 
}
 
sub footer{
print <<FOOTER;
</body>
</html>
FOOTER
 
}
 
 
# first step type in table name and number of fields
sub first{
my ($action,$method)=@_;
 
print <<FIRST;
<h2>Building and Using a Database</h2>
<h2>Step 1: Name of Table and Number of Fields</h2>
<form id="form1" method="$method" action="$action">
  <p><b>Table Name:</b>
    <input name="tableName" type="text" size="10" maxlength="10" />
 
  </p>
  <p><b>Number of Fields</b>:
    <input name="fieldCount" type="text" size="10" maxlength="10" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="step" value="Submit" />
  </p>
 
</form>
 
<p>&nbsp;</p>
FIRST
 
}
 
# type in field characteristics
sub second{
# print out outer HTML form/table, etc.
my ($action,$method,$table,$fields) = @_;
 
print <<HTML;
 
<form id="form1" method="$method" action="$action">
      <input type="hidden" name="tableName" value="$table" />
      <input type="hidden" name="fieldCount" value="$fields" />
      <table width="60%" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <caption>$table</caption>
            <tr>
                  <td><b>FIELD NAME</b></td>
                  <td><b>FIELD TYPE</b></td>
                  <td><b>FIELD LENGTH</b></td>
            </tr>
HTML
 
# print out the number of fields specified in step 1 us basic for loop statement
for ($counter=1; $counter <= $fields; ++$counter){
      print <<HTML1;
            <tr>
                  <td><input name="fieldname$counter" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" /></td>
                  <td>
                        <select name="fieldtype$counter">
                              <option value="char">char</option>
                              <option value="date">date</option>
                              <option value="float">float</option>
                              <option value="int">int</option>
                              <option value="text">text</option>
                              <option value="varchar">varchar</option>
                        </select>
                  </td>
                  <td><input name="fieldlength$counter" type="text"  size="5" maxlength="5" /></td>
            </tr>
       
HTML1
 
}
print <<HTML3;
      </table>
 
      <p><input type="submit" name="step" value="Create Table" /></p>
</form>
 
HTML3
 
}
 
# prints out SQL code - will print all fields and characteristics
sub third{
my ($table,$fieldCount) = @_;
 
my $tableFields = "";
for($i=1; $i<$fieldCount; ++$i)
{
$tableFields .= param("fieldname$i") . " " . param("fieldtype$i") . "(" . param("fieldlength$i") . "), ";
}
$tableFields .= param("fieldname$i") . " " . param("fieldtype$i") . " (" . param("fieldlength$i") . ")";
 
# print out
print(" CREATE TABLE $table( $tableFields );");
}
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