DbFramework is a collection of classes for manipulating DBI databases. The classes are loosely based on the CDIF Data Model Subject Area.

Note: Do not use DbFramework. I believe it is outdated and not working anymore. I obtained its ownership only to keep it clean until it is retired. If you were using DbFramework, consider other, more recent solutions like XML instead.

The last release 1.10 of DbFramework is due 1999-05-13, even before Perl 5.005_03. As today is 2008-04-19, that is NINE years ago. It is not suprising DbFramework does not work now. If you are still using CDIF Data Model Subject Area, it might be easier to migrate your code to use XML, than to make DbFramework working. Besides, DbFramework takes a CPAN root namespace, DbFramework::*, which is not right, too.

DbFramework was written by Paul Sharpe (paul@miraclefish.com, CPAN ID: PSHARPE). If you are looking for older versions, see Paul's BackPen directory: http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/P/PS/PSHARPE/

Please report bugs to rt.cpan.org. Even that I may not fix them, they are still public records that could help the others understanding them.

By imacat <imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw>, written 2008-04-19.

DbFramework is a collection of classes for manipulating DBI databases. The classes are loosely based on the CDIF Data Model Subject Area.

This module will help you to

See the POD for further details.

Prerequisites

Perl 5.005
Alias
CGI
URI::Escape
DBI 1.06
Text::FillIn
Term::ReadKey

DbFramework has been successfully built and tested on (at least) the following configurations. In general the driver version is VERY IMPORTANT as DbFramework makes use of some of the newer DBI metadata methods which may only be implemented in development branches of certain drivers.

OS Driver Database

RedHat Linux 5.1 Msql-Mysql-modules-1.21_15 Mysql 3.22.14-gamma 
                   Msql-Mysql-modules-1.21_15 Msql 2.0.8
                   DBD-Pg-0.91                PostgreSQL 6.4.2

Note that DBD::CSV is unlikely to be supported in the near future due to the limitations of this driver.

Installation

  1. Ensure you have installed the prerequisites above.
  2. perl Makefile.PL Select each DBD driver you wish to test DbFramework against. make make test You will need permission to create the databases 'dbframework_test' and 'dbframework_catalog' for each DBI driver you chose to test. make install

To use forms/dbforms.cgi, install it in a CGI directory then 'perldoc forms/dbforms.cgi'.

paul@miraclefish.com