im a total noob to setting up webservers. Im running winXP with iis5.1 and i have successfully installed perl 5.6.1, php4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23 and they all work.

Problem i have is that MySQL will not work with perl as it says it needs a module that it hasnt got. MySQL will work fine with PHP butnot perl. Can someone tell me where to get the required modules and how to go about installing them???

later...

Hi Iceman,

You need to use ppm. From a command line type: ppm to start up a ppm session. Once you are running ppm, type: help to get the details. **Note: search is your friend in ppm** Once you have searched for the modules that you want, type install module-name to intsall the module(s). You are looking for the DBI and DBD-Mysql modules.

Regards,
Charlie

thanks for that, youre a legend, you summed it up brilliantly. ive read pages and pages on this matter and none of it made sense, but from what you said, i installed them modules in a few minutes.

later..