NAME

Object::POOF::DB - database transaction thread object for POOF: Perl Object Oriented Framework.

DESCRIPTION

Your object that inherits this one is a database connection and transaction thread. You can share it among POOF objects by passing it into their constructors as 'db' (Shepherd usually does this.) Create a new one and pass it around as an independent transaction thread.

You create a DB object in your namespace as the following:

 package Sample::DB;

 require Object::POOF::DB;
 @ISA = qw(Object::POOF::DB);

 sub init {
     my ($self,$p)    = @_;
     $self->{dbname}  = "database_name";
     $self->{dbhost}  = "database_host";
     $self->{dbuname} = "database_uname";
     $self->{dbpass}  = "database_passwd";
     
     # right now we only work with mysql
     $self->{dsn} = "dbi:mysql:dbname=".$self->{dbname}
                    .";host=".$self->{dbhost};
     
     # always call the SUPER::init
     $self->SUPER::init or return undef;
     return 1;
 }

 1;

Always call the SUPER::init function from most init functions in POOF. Note that you don't need a constructor in your object. The POOF::DB constructor is inherited.

SEE ALSO

Object::POOF(3) Object::POOF::App(3)

AUTHOR

Copyright 2005 Mark Hedges <hedges@ucsd.edu>, CPAN: MARKLE

LICENSE

Released under the standard Perl license (GPL/Artistic).