HTML::FormEngine::DBSQL version 1.01 ==================================== is a exentsion of HTML::FormEngine, that means it inherits all functionality from HTML::FormEngine and adds some new features. In web development form data is mostly used to update a database. For example most guestbooks or any similar webapplications store the entered data in a database. Often very large forms are needed, e.g. when the user should provide his personal data to subscribe to an certain service. In most cases a SQL database is used. If you don't now anything about SQL databases or you're not using such things, this module will hardly help you. But if you do, you'll know that every record, that you want to store in a certain SQL database table, has to have certain fields and these fields must contain data of an certain type (datatype). So the tables structure already defines how a form that wants to add data to this table might look like (in case that you don't want to process the whole data before adding it to the table). reads out the tables structure and creates a form definition for HTML::FormEngine. It also helps you in communicating with the database (e.g. functions for automatically inserting and updating are provided). NOTE: Due to a consequent redesign FormEngine::DBSQL 1.0 is not compatible to older versions. Please read the MIGRATING file (which you find in the distribution near to this file) for help on migrating your old scripts to FormEngine::DBSQL >=1.0. Please see the POD for additional information. INSTALLATION To install this module, type: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If you need gettext support, copy the content of the locale directory to your systems locale directory, you have to overwrite the file that is already there from HTML::FormEngine. If your locale directory isn't /usr/share/locale, you have to adopt the path through the skins constructor. DEPENDENCIES - Carp 1.01 - Hash::Merge 0.07 by Michael K. Neylon - Locale::gettext 1.01 by Phillip Vandry - Digest::MD5 2.24 by Gisle Aas - Clone 0.13 by Ray Finch - DBI 1.42 by the DBI developers - HTML::FormEngine 1.0 by Moritz Sinn COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE (c) 2003-2004 Moritz Sinn This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (see COPYING).