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.