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]]);
BeerDB->config->template_root("/var/www/beerdb/");
# Now set up your database:
# has-a relationships
# untaint columns

1;

## example beer.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use BeerDB;
BeerDB->run();

Now to access the beer database, type this URL into your browser: http://your.site/cgi-bin/beer.cgi/frontpage

DESCRIPTION

This is a CGI platform driver for Maypole. Your application can inherit from CGI::Maypole directly, but it is recommended that you use Maypole::Application.

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