Are there JavaScript bindings for MySQL?

Question

I want to access a MySQL database directly from JavaScript code in an HTML page in Firefox.

Does such a library exist?

To be very clear, CGI+Ajax wil

Answer 1

What you need is a HTTP service that exposes the data you want to fetch with JavaScript.

A small AJAX oriented server side script (PHP, Perl, Ruby, whatever) that takes a few parameters and does the MySQL query, sending the data to the client in an HTTP-and-JavaScript friendly manner (for example as image/jpeg or JSON).

You won't be able to set up anything useful (a working, cross-browser solution) that makes MySQL available to JavaScript. JavaScript can do HTTP, and that's about it. Adapt on the server side.