NAME

Lingua::ZH::CEDICT::Storable - MySQL interface for Lingua::ZH::CEDICT

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::ZH::CEDICT;

$dict = Lingua::ZH::CEDICT->new(source   => "MySQL",
                                host     => "localhost",
                                port     => "3306",
                                db       => "dict",
                                user     => "frederik",
                                password => "pickeldie",
                                prefix   => "CEDICT");

# Connect to MySQL server and search something
$dict->init();

$dict->startMatch('house');
while (my $e = $dict->match()) {
    #      trad    simp    pinyin pinyin w/o tones  english
    print "$e->[0] $e->[1] [$e->[2] / $e->[3]] $e->[4]\n";
}

# or import from textfile and store in database for future use
# (you could also use storable for import)
$tdict = Lingua::ZH::CEDICT->new{src => "Textfile");
$dict->importData($tdict);

DESCRIPTION

This module uses a MySQL database to store the dictionary data. Nice for dictionary websites. Check out http://www.web42.com/zidian/ for an example.

METHODS

startMatch($key)

Performs a select on the database and returns an enumerator. You can either use it or call match.

my $enum = startMatch($key);
while (my $e = $enum->each()) {
    # ...
}

If you are surprised by the matches, take a look at the source code to see what the select does.

Note that it is your responsibility that the key doesn't contain malicious input. I suggest using something like

$key =~ s/[^\p{Han}\p{Latin}0-9]//g;

Oops. That doesn't seem to work with 5.6.1. Hmm...

match()

Provided for compatibility with the other modules. Uses the enumerator generated by startMatch.

PREREQUISITES

Net::MySQL for the connections to MySQL.

Lingua::ZH::CEDICT. Circumventing it is an undocumented feature ;-).

AUTHOR

Christian Renz, <crenz@web42.com>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2002 Christian Renz. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::ZH::CEDICT. Net::MySQL.