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FTN-Database-0.10
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NAME

FTN::Database - FTN SQL Database related operations for Fidonet/FTN related processing.

VERSION

Version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

FTN::Database is Perl modules containing common database related operations for Fidonet/FTN related SQL Database processing plus associated scripts. The SQL database engine is one for which a DBD module exists, defaulting to SQLite.

Perhaps a little code snippet.

use FTN::Database;

my $db_handle = open_ftndb($db_type, $db_name, $db_user, $db_pass);
...
close_ftndb($db_handle);

EXPORT

The following functions are available in this module: open_ftndb, close_ftndb.

FUNCTIONS

open_ftndb

Syntax: $db_handle = open_ftndb($db_type, $db_name, $db_user, $db_pass);

Open a database for Fidonet/FTN processing, where:

$db_type

The database type. This needs to be a database type for which a DBD module exists, the type being the name as used in the DBD module. The default type to be used is SQLite.

$db_name

The database name.

$db_user

The database user, which should already have the neccesary priviledges.

$db_pass

The database password for the database user.

$db_handle

The database handle being returned to the calling program.

close_ftndb

Syntax: close_ftndb($db_handle);

Closing an FTN database, where $db_handle is an existing open database handle.

AUTHOR

Robert James Clay, <jame at rocasa.us>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-ftn-database at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=FTN-Database. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc FTN::Database

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO

L<FTN::Database::Nodelist>, L<ftndbadm>, L<listftndb>, L<ftndbadm>,
and L<nl2ftndb>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Robert James Clay, all rights reserved.

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