Well, I wrote MySQL::Easy (bad name, I know) because I didn't like all the
work I had to do maintaining and working with the DBI methods to keep my
mysql connection alive. I found I had to do the same simple lines of code
over and over and I didn't like it. That is all.
Examples:
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI::mysql:testdb:host=something:port=something;opt;opt;opt");
my $dbo = new MySQL::Easy("testdb");
Easy reads your $ENV{HOME}/.my.cnf for unp when you don't specify the
username/pass directly. Handy?!?! Yes.
my $sth1 = $dbh->prepare("select something from something where something=something");
my $sth2 = $dbo->ready("select something from something where something=something");
$sth1 looks pretty much the same as $sth2... but $sth2 will check to see if
the connection is still there and if it isn't, will rebuild the connection
and re-prepare the sth automatically -- ie, no errors.
Other than these two little things, this package is probably not necessary and
sticking with vanilla DBI is probably the way to go.
