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

    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>

Class::DBI authentication.

* 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.

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

Class::DBI.

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.