DBIx::Frame is an extension of the standard DBI perl module, designed around mysql, and used to create and maintain frameworks for databases. It has query logging, and a standardized interface for standard SQL statements like 'update' and 'insert' that doesn't require understanding SQL to any great degree. Ideally, the user or developer shouldn't have to know too much SQL to be able to administer a database. On the other hand, it does require a certain setup that isn't necessarily easy to pick up, and isn't standard SQL - with all the problems that this entails.
You must have the following modules installed:
DBI v1.14 (older might work, but 1.14 is known to work) HTML::FormRemove v0.10 (supplied with package)
You'll probably also want drivers for whatever database you're using (ie mysql).
Installing this software is easy:
perl Makefile.pl
make
make test
make install
All the documentation should be kept in the manual pages. If you want to read it in place, 'pod2text Frame.pm | more' ought to cover you.
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/MDTools/dbixframe/
Theoretical and Computational http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/ Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC Senior Systems Administrator