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.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT

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