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A Database-Driven Web Application in 18 Lines of Code

Issue 131

From Issue #131
March 2005

Jan 26, 2005  By Paul Barry
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From zero to Web-based database application in eight easy steps.
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Please help

Justin Rickert's picture
Submitted by Justin Rickert (not verified) on Sat, 04/16/2005 - 07:23.

I have tried to get the content of this article to work for three days now. I have finally got all the modules from CPAN installed. However when I try and use the App I get this message in the httpd error log:

failed to resolve handler `ClubDB':

and

Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::Constants

I installed Apache::Constants with
# perl -MCPAN -eshell
# install Apache::Constants

I have followed this article content and dont understant why it don't work.

Fights with Apache

Jason McKenna's picture
Submitted by Jason McKenna (not verified) on Thu, 02/17/2005 - 23:07.

I'm running SuSE 9.1 with Apache 2 and had a hard time fighting to get things working. The one thing which took me the longest time to figure out was the Apache::MVC module does a check to see if you're running Apache 1 or 2. If 2 it requires one set of libraries, if 1 then a different set.

They both require Apache::Request, but as far I've been able to determine, this is not available for Apache 2:

if (APACHE2) {
require Apache2;
...
} else { require Apache }
require Apache::Request;

I seem to have fixed the problem by putting the "require Apache::Request" line inside the else block.

I don't know Perl or the Apache modules enough to say if this is a bug in MVC, or if my system is grossly misconfigured. Regardless, Maypole is working for me now, but I'm continuing to research. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Can't compile libapreq2 either

scottebetts's picture
Submitted by scottebetts on Fri, 02/11/2005 - 02:04.

Even though /sbin is in my path already. I'm on FC3 that was upgraded from FC2. I may try a clean new install in order to give this a whirl.

I couldn't get this tutorial

ElaineNormandy's picture
Submitted by ElaineNormandy on Sat, 02/05/2005 - 14:57.

I couldn't get this tutorial to work until I made the following changes:

1. include /sbin in path when compiling libapreq2 module.

2. changed ClubDB.pm to have the following line:

ClubDB->setup( "dbi:mysql:CLUB", "manager", "passwordhere" );

instead of existing ClubDB->setup line.

Hope these tips help someone else save some hours.

Getting it to work

Mitch Kuppinger's picture
Submitted by Mitch Kuppinger (not verified) on Sun, 03/27/2005 - 16:53.

In addition to ElaineNormandy's suggestion which was key to getting this to work, I can offer these suggestions:

In ClubDB.pm since at line 9 we are in the ClubDB::Squad package definition, line 9 should be changed from "ClubDB::Player->untaint..." to "ClubDB::Squad->untaint...".

Be VERY carefull with your syntax in ClubDB.pm. For example, using curved braces, '(' and ')', instead of curly braces, '{' abd '}', after 'sub display_columns' causes the display of the associated table to be replaced by a message that the page can't be opened. The log ( logs/error.log) is minimally helpfull with this.

Be sure to restart Apache whenever ClubDB.pm is changed.

Paul Barry's article is thorough but does not walk you thru installing and setting up Apache and mod_perl, if you don't have them. This has to be done right to get the rest to work. Having the source code and all the resultant files from the build process (eg. apxs ) appears to be necessary to install libapreq2. My initial install of fc3 did not have these. It took a bit of poking around to get these required files in place.

All that said, I now have the tools in place to move some very usefull Interbase SQL databases to mysql and serve them up with browser technology to the various offices in our organization. Thanks to Paul Barry, Simon Cozens and Sebastion Riedel.

Getting it to work ... more

barryp's picture
Submitted by barryp on Wed, 04/13/2005 - 04:22.

Paul Barry's article is thorough but does not walk you thru installing and setting up Apache and mod_perl, if you don't have them.

I initially had a version of the article that covered installing Apache/mod_perl from source. However, in discussions with LJ's editor, it was decided that the article would be more useful if I targetted a distribution's build of Apache/mod_perl, the thinking being that if a distribution issued a security fix, it could be applied to the system as a result of the distribution's updating system. The idea was that building from source would mean that the user would then be taking on responsibility for updating Apache/mod_perl when security patches were issued. It was felt that people are busy enough, so we stuck with a distribution's Apache/mod_perl package.

My initial install of fc3 did not have these. It took a bit of poking around to get these required files in place.

As the last step of Part 1, I state: "be sure to install the following packages from your chosen distribution: httpd, httpd-devel, mod_perl, mod_perl-devel, mysql (client and server) and Perl.". With these packages installed, APXS and the like are installed for you. I did this on FC3 with no real issues.

Interbase SQL

You may wish to try hooking Maypole up to Interbase and avoid the step of moving your data to MySQL. Maypole is database-independent. Worth checking out.

Thanks to Paul Barry, Simon Cozens and Sebastion Riedel.

Oh my ... all I did was write the article. The "Simons" did all the real work and they deserve all the credit.

Thanks for the comments on the article. Glad you found it useful.

Regards.

Paul.

Paul Barry

getting Maypole (this tutorial) to work

barryp's picture
Submitted by barryp on Mon, 02/21/2005 - 11:14.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you view things) Maypole and its API is constantly under development. The module is now at release 2.09, whereas my code worked under 2.04 and that was just a few short months ago. The best advice I can give web developers is to subscribe to the Mayole mailing list and to check any list archives. And -- yes -- getting Maypole to work is a challenge but, once it works, I think its worth the heartache.

Paul Barry

Paul Barry

Just the thing I've been pull

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/17/2005 - 23:09.

Just the thing I've been pulling my hair out over the last 20 mins. Thanks!

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