MAMP & MAMP PRO 4 Documentation

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Note: This is the documentation for the outdated version 4 of MAMP & MAMP PRO. The documentation for the current version can be found under https://documentation.mamp.info.

Connect To MySQL using Perl

use DBI;
 
my $user = 'root';
my $password = 'root';
my $db = 'inventory';

my $link = DBI->connect(
   "DBI:mysql:database=$db", 
   $user, 
   $password
);

or connecting via network:

use DBI;
 
my $user = 'root';
my $password = 'root';
my $db = 'inventory';
my $host = 'localhost';
my $port = 8889;

my $link = DBI->connect(
   "DBI:mysql:database=$db;host=$host;port=$port", 
   $user, 
   $password
);