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NAME

CGI::Maypole - CGI-based front-end to Maypole

SYNOPSIS

     package BeerDB;
     use base 'CGI::Maypole;
     BeerDB->setup("dbi:mysql:beerdb");
     BeerDB->config->uri_base("http://your.site/cgi-bin/beer.cgi/");
     BeerDB->config->display_tables([qw[beer brewery pub style]]);
     # Now set up your database:
     # has-a relationships
     # untaint columns

     1;

     ## example beer.cgi:
        
     #!/usr/bin/perl -w
     use strict;
     use BeerDB;
     BeerDB->run();

DESCRIPTION

This is a handler for Maypole which will use the CGI instead of Apache's mod_perl 1.x. This handler can also be used for Apache 2.0.

METHODS

run

Call this from your CGI script to start the Maypole application.

Implementation

This class overrides a set of methods in the base Maypole class to provide it's functionality. See Maypole for these:

get_request
get_template_root
parse_args
parse_location
send_output

AUTHORS

Dave Ranney dave@sialia.com

Simon Cozens simon@cpan.org