Will PERL do what I need ?

[sbayeta]

Hi,
I'm a newbie on web apps, though I have some degree of experience in programming C/C++
I need to build a page to show some values stored in a database. As these stored values are updated by other apps, I need my page to show the changes in real time.
Can I do this using Perl ? If not, can anyone sugest another technology ?

Thanks

 

[jewel464g]

I know this can be done with PHP, because we do that here all the time. I've never tried it in Perl. You will find the syntax of PHP, Perl, C are a lot alike.

Jewel

http://www.scriptchick.com/

When faced with a decision, always ask, 'Which would be the most fun?'

 

[arn0ld]

Database manipulations and formatting are simple and flexiblein PERL with cgi.pm.
See

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/

and remember: web applications are just a subset of PERL's capabilities - a powerful, general programming language
(and much more interesting than 1970's languages like C/C++)

 

[PaulTEG]

Look up the DBI module, and also mysql

HTH
Paul