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NAME

dbforms.cgi - Forms interface to DbFramework databases

SYNOPSIS

  http://foo/cgi_bin/dbforms.cgi?db=foo&db_dsn=mysql:database=foo&c_dsn=mysql:database=dbframework_catalog

DESCRIPTION

dbforms.cgi presents a simple HTML forms interface to any database configured to work with DbFramework. The database must have the appropriate catalog entries in the catalog database before it will work with this script (see "The Catalog" in DbFramework::Catalog.)

Query string arguments

The following arguments are supported in the query string. Mandatory arguments are shown in bold.

db

The name of the database.

db_dsn

The portion of the DBI DSN after 'DBI:' to be used to connect to the database e.g. 'mysql:database=foo'.

c_dsn

The portion of the DBI DSN after 'DBI:' to be used to connect to the catalog database e.g. 'mysql:database=dbframework_catalog'.

host

The host on which the database is located (default = 'localhost'.)

SEE ALSO

DbFramework::Catalog.

AUTHOR

Paul Sharpe <paul@miraclefish.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 Paul Sharpe. England. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.