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Authen::Simple::CDBI(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::CDBI(3pm)
 

NAME

Authen::Simple::CDBI - Simple Class::DBI authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::CDBI;
    my $cdbi = Authen::Simple::CDBI->new(
        class => 'MyApp::Model::User'
    );
    if ( $cdbi->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::CDBI
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_class "MyApp::Model::User"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::CDBI
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Class::DBI authentication.

METHODS

* new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
* class
Class::DBI subclass. Required.
    class => 'MyApp::Model::User'
    
* username
Name of "username" column. Defaults to "username".
    username => 'username'
    
* password
Name of "password" column. Defaults to "password".
    password => 'password'
    
* log
Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::CDBI')
    
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.
Authen::Simple::Password.
Class::DBI.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
2008-02-29 perl v5.8.8