[ic] SQL Statements within Usertags

[Stefan Hornburg]

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.

Ciao
         Racke