Authen::Simple::CDBI3pm

Usage

    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>

Overview

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.