NAME

Relations::Family v0.94

DESCRIPTION

This perl module uses perl5 objects to simplify searching through an reporting on large, complex MySQL databases, especially those with foreign keys.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 GAF-3 Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Written by George A. Fitch III (aka Gaffer), gaf3@gaf3.com

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

INSTALlATION

REQUIRED

perl 5.004
DBI >= 1.13
DBD::mysql >= 1.18
Relations >= 0.94
Relations::Query >= 0.93
Relations::Abstract >= 0.94

WIN32 (Relations-Family-0.94.zip)

Extract zip file into a directory and type

ppm install Relations-Family.ppd

UN*X (Relations-Family-0.94.tar.gz)

Extract bundle into a directory and type

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

TESTING

After installing, run test.pl by typing

perl test.pl

while in the installation directory.

DEMONSTRATION

Included with this distribution is demo.pl, which demonstrates all the listed functionality of Relations::Family. You must have MySQL, Perl, DBI, DBD-MySQL, Relations, Relations::Query, Relations::Abstract, and Relations::Family installed.

After installing everything, run demo.pl by typing

perl demo.pl

while in the installation directory.