Authen::Simple::CDBI(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Authen::Simple::CDBI(3pm)

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.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-02-29						 Authen::Simple::CDBI(3pm)