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Web Reporting with MySQL, CSS and Perl

Issue 149

From Issue #149
September 2006

Aug 28, 2006  By Paul Barry
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Extending the Maypole Soccer Club Database System with a simple Web-based reporting mechanism.
Integration with a Maypole Application

To link my simple reporting interface into my Soccer Club application, I changed the custom/frontpage template to include an additional list item that refers to the reporting Web page: 


<ul>
[% FOR table = config.display_tables %]
    <li>
        <a href="[%table%]/list">Work with the
                               [%table %] data</a>
    </li>
[% END %]
    <li>Work with the <a href="Reports.html">
                               Reports System</a>
</ul>

When the application is loaded into a browser, the link appears as part of the initial Maypole menu, as shown in Figure 4. My Web-based reporting system is simple, safe and easily extended. All I need to do now is write some more SQL queries.

Figure 4. Integrating the Reporting Web Interface with Maypole

Paul Barry (paul.barry@itcarlow.ie) lectures at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, in Ireland. Information on the courses he teaches, in addition to the books and articles he has written, can be found on his Web site, glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~barryp.

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Re:Web Reporting with MySQL, CSS and Perl

Clement Yap's picture
Submitted by Clement Yap (not verified) on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 21:53.

Hi Paul,

I thank you for your generous tip on how we can convert the mySQl results into html in a breezy way.

However I would like to know how I can produce results in html that looks much like command line client, that is the results is bordered by plus, pipe and dash symbols.

Pls advise
Thanks in advance
Clement

PERLwebinteface

ayesha's picture
Submitted by ayesha (not verified) on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 09:59.

hy its realy v informative..i actually have to create web interface using perl..have made a database of hospitalsin SQL and now have to create web interface using perl and html..could u plz help me in that

EXCELLENT HELP

Tommy Burle's picture
Submitted by Tommy Burle (not verified) on Thu, 12/21/2006 - 14:59.

Hi Paul

Tommy Burke from your 2004 Networking class here. Stumbled across this when re-searching a current reporting project for work. It has greatly helped me in getting a headstart on the code and the above makes it a hell of a lot easier to work with the query results rather than parsing through each rown and formatting them into a html page.. :-)

Now if i could only get these damn admins to install CGI,DBI and DBD:Mysql faster!!

Once more an excellent piece of work by you

Regards
Tommy

Web Reporting with MySQL, CSS and Perl

Ashok's picture
Submitted by Ashok (not verified) on Tue, 11/14/2006 - 10:53.

Dear Barry,
The teaching style is simply marvelous.
You have consistently simplified a complex task by breaking it into small easy to follow steps.
Though I have no intentions of implementing such an arrangement, I read through the entire article as it easy easy to understand.
Congratulations.

Ashok

Nice comments, thanks!

barryp's picture
Submitted by barryp on Mon, 02/05/2007 - 06:20.

Shucks ... I'm blushing. Very pleased you liked it.

--
Paul Barry
IT Carlow, Ireland
http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~barryp

Paul Barry

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