#!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use strict; my $username = "dbuser"; my $password = "dbpassword"; my $dsn = "dbi:mysql:goo:192.168.1.10"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$username,$password) or die "Cannot connect to database: $DBI::errstr"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO urls VALUES('','http://www.demo.org/','suehring',unix_timestamp(),'query words')"); $sth->execute() or die "Cannot execute sth: $DBI::errstr"; my $insertid = $dbh->{'mysql_insertid'}; print "$insertid\n"; $dbh->disconnect();