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WDB MySQL Interface

The mysql_dbi.pl file makes it possible to use WDB to interface to MySQL.

MySQL is available from http://www.tcx.se/.

Requirements

You need Perl version 5.004 or later. Both the DBD::MySQL and MsqlPerl extensions are combined into the Mysql-modules package from Andreas Koenig and Jochen Wiedmann. You will need to use the DBD extension.

You can find information about Perl at: http://www.perl.com.

You can find out more about DBI and the DBD modules at: http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/perl/DBI/index.html.

Configuration

Follow the normal WDB configuration instructions, with the following exceptions :

Creating FDF's

Included is also a MySQL version of mkfdf, called mysqlfdf, which will produce a working template FDF file given a database and table name.


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