transfer files

[pauli2]

i ahve a project. It is as follows

To transfer files from a unix server into an oracle database.

the user will be able to select the files to be transfered from a web based environment that are to be transferred.

My question is can i do using perl/cgi

[Mouldy_Goat]

Yep, this is possible.

Things you might want to take a look at if you want to do this:
http://www.webxpertz.net/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=17794 for how to handle file uploads and http://zope1.devshed.com/zope.devshed.com/Server_Side/Perl/Carping/page2.html for nice little introduction to DBI.

The DBI.pm module is basically an API to an API. It allows you to write code with it for database based tasks which can be used unchanged on different databases (e.g. MySQL and Oracle). The POD for the module is probably one of the best places to start as well: http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI-1.30/DBI.pm.

Hope that helps a bit, feel free to ask any questions you might have.

[pauli2]

thanke a lot mate. i will probably be asking for help. i wish i knew what i was getting into when i took on this project.