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Jun 18, 2002, 5:33 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 5:33 AM

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Getting a field as a variable...

Ok..this is probably easy for most people..but this is the first plugin I have attempted to write that grabs some data from the SQL database ;)

What I am trying to do is grab the URL for a link, where the ID is equal to $id.

# connect to MySQl, so we can get the URL...
my $db = new GT::SQL '';
my $table = $db->table ('Links');
my $sth = $db->select ( { ID => \"$id" } );

I've got as far as the code above, but now I'm stuck as to how to get the field 'URL' returned into a variable that I am use elsewhere....can someone help me here please? Unimpressed

I've worked my wayt through the documentation to get as far as this..but I'm lost now Tongue

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Jun 18, 2002, 5:57 AM

yogi

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Jun 18, 2002, 5:57 AM

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You can always use the $DB object in your plugins, i.e. you don't need to create a new GT::SQL object.

So you could do:

Code:
my $table = $DB->table ('Links'); 
my $url; 
if (my $sth = $table->select( { ID => $id }, ['URL'] )) { 
    $url = $sth->fetchrow; 
}

The hashref in the select statement is your condition, the arrayref lists the field you want to get.

in general, you can use the following statements, depending on what you put into select (not sure if the list is complete)

Code:
$sth->fetchrow; 
$sth->fetchrow_array; 
$sth->fetchrow_hashref; 
$sth->fetchrow_arrayref; 
$sth->fetchall_arrayref; 
$sth->fetchall_hashref; 
$sth->fetchall_list;

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:39 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:39 AM

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Thanks Yogi..worked great (slight typo on line 3 of first example..missing $)....

The problem I am having now is with;

Code:
  # now connect to the URL..to see what we get... 
   my $sock   = GT::Socket->open({ 
            'host'  => $url, 
            'port'  => 80 
            }); 

   $sock->write( "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" ); 

   print "REQUEST RETURNED:\n\n", $sock->gulpread(-1);

For some reason $url is not being passed along. Should it be in ""'s?

EDIT: I tried it with '' and "", and nothing again..but none of them worked. I printed out the value of $url, and that has a value for it Unsure

The error I am getting is;

>>>Can't call method "write" on an undefined value at /home/ace-clipart.com/public_html/directory/cgi/safe_jump.cgi line 51.<<<

Thanks

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:43 AM

yogi

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:43 AM

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What typo? Angelic

Use GT::Dumper to print what is stored in $url.

Code:
use GT::Dumper; 
print Dumper($url);

after the fetchrow statement.

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:45 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:45 AM

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I know it holds the right value, as just below it I added;

print $IN->header();
print $url;

That printed out "http://www.ace-installer.com", as expected... Unsure

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:49 AM

yogi

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Jun 18, 2002, 6:49 AM

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You have to strip out the http://

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:02 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:02 AM

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Ah..that worked great :) I've got it grabbing the site now...but I'm getting the whole site Unsure

Is there any way to limit it to just the;;

Quote:

REQUEST RETURNED:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:02:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
Connection: close

bit?

Thanks for your help... Smile

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:12 AM

Paul

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:12 AM

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Ok forget my question in the custom jobs forum ;)

Have you read the pod regarding gulpread and max_down bytes?

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:17 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:17 AM

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Yup..and it all flew right over my head Tongue

About the only bit I understood was how to grab the URL, and get itsw status from there. I could just use a split() to get the status..but its a lot more long winded than other methods I would imagine.

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:31 AM

Paul

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:31 AM

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Try adding in max_down bytes into the open() method - set it to 12 or 15 if you want.

max_down => 12

...then see what you get :)

Jun 18, 2002, 7:34 AM

Andy

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Jun 18, 2002, 7:34 AM

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Ah..thanks. I was literally just playing with max_down option, and was at 2048...working my way down Tongue

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