Authen::Simple::DBI(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::DBI(3pm)
NAME
Authen::Simple::DBI - Simple DBI authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::DBI;
my $dbi = Authen::Simple::DBI->new(
dsn => 'dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db',
statement => 'SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?'
);
if ( $dbi->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Apache::DBI
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBI
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_dsn "dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_statement "SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::DBI
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION
DBI authentication.
METHODS
* new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
* dsn Database Source Name. Required.
dsn => 'dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db'
dsn => 'dbi:mysql:database=database;host=localhost;'
* statement
SQL statement. The statement must take a single string argument (username) and return a single value (password). Required.
statement => 'SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?'
* username
Database username.
username => 'username'
* password
Database password.
password => 'secret'
* log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::DBI')
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple.
Authen::Simple::Password.
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::DBI(3pm)
