DBIx-FileStore Perl module that provides tools to insert, delete and manipulate files stored in a mysql database. "What!?" you'd say. "You're not supposed to store files directly in a database!" And I'd say, "Yes, friend, you're right. But sometimes you just want to anyway." I actually wrote this just to see how well it would work. The answer is that it works fine! Modulus the fact that you're storing large blobs in a database. In particular, it might make your mysql transaction logs pretty large... but that's another story. The details are explained throughout the module's documentation, (in particular see the documentation for DBIx::FileStore). In a nutshell you can copy files into and out of the database (respectively) using the commands 'fdbput' and 'fdbget'. 'fdbmv' and 'fdbrm' are also provided, along with a few other utilities in the script/ directory. The important things to note are: 1) All the filenames in the filestore are in one flat address space. That is, a file like '/a/b/c.txt' is called just that, it's not in a folder called /a/b/ (although fdbls does offer some support for directory-like viewing of files with common prefixes). 2) The filenames in the filestore cannot contain spaces. It's demo code after all -- we tried to keep it simple. For usage details, see the QUICKSTART.txt file in this folder and the documentation for the filestore scripts in the script/ directory. For technical details, see the documentation for DBIx::FileStore and the utilities in script/ There's also a video demo available at joshr.com/src/DBIx-FileStore/ that is provided in multiple formats. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install See also the QUICKSTART.txt file to get started. LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2010 Josh Rabinowitz This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.