[ic] SQL Statements within Usertags

[Rich Doughty]

On 16 Jan 2003, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:29:03 +0000
> Rich Doughty <rich@opusvl.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 16 Jan 2003, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:52:35 +0000
> > > Rich Doughty <rich@opusvl.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > whats the "recommended" way of executing SQL within a usertag? I've been
> > > > using $Tag->sql (...), but is there any way of accessing the DB connection
> > > > object for example, and avoiding the $Tag->sql (...) overhead?
> > > 
> > > I often use the following technique:
> > > 
> > > [perl tables=foo]
> > > $set = $Db{foo}->query('select question,answer from foo');
> > > for (@$set) {
> > >     ($question, $answer) = @$_;
> > >     ...
> > > }
> > > [/perl]
> > > 
> > 
> > cheers.
> > 
> > were using mysql exclusively, so can the table name be arbitrary, or does it
> > have to be one of the explicitly registered tables (products, userdb - in
> > our case)?
> 
> To my knowledge, any query in the example above would work in your case, regardless of
> the tables= and $Db parameter.

I'm getting an error $Db {products} undefined.
keys (%Db) returns empty, although %Db *is* defined.

what do i do with the tables="" attribute within the usertag?

  - Rich Doughty