NAME

HTML::Puzzle::DBTable - Connection module to data tables

SYNOPSIS

 use HTML::Puzzle::DBTable; 
 my $comp       = new HTML::Puzzle::DBTable(    dbh     => $dbh,
                                                name    => 'Test' 
                                            );
 # create data table
 $comp->create;
 # add an item
 my $addItem        = {
                        'title'         => "First title",
                        'txt_short'     => "First short text",
                        'txt_long'      => "First very long long text :-)",
                        'link'          => "http://a.link.itm/";,
                        'link_img'      => "http://a.link.img/";,
                        'data'          => '2002-07-21'
                        };
 $comp->add($addItem);
 # get item as an array ref
 my $itm            = $comp->array_items();
 # return something like 
 # [
 #          [
 #            'id',
 #            'title',
 #            'txt_short',
 #            'txt_long',
 #            'link',
 #            'link_img',
 #            'enable',
 #            'data',
 #            'ts'
 #          ], 
 #          [
 #            '1',
 #            'First title',
 #            'First short text',
 #            'First very long long text :-)',
 #            'http://a.link.itm/',
 #            'http://a.link.img/',
 #            '1',
 #            '2002-07-21 00:00:00',
 #            '02'
 #          ]
 #        ];
 # get item as an hash ref
 my $itm            = $comp->hash_items();
 # return something like
 #       [
 #        {
 #           'ts' => '02',
 #           'title' => 'First title',
 #           'txt_long' => 'First very long long text :-)',
 #           'data' => '2002-07-21 00:00:00',
 #           'id' => '1',
 #           'link_img' => 'http://a.link.img/',
 #           'txt_short' => 'First short text',
 #           'enable' => '1',
 #           'link' => 'http://a.link.itm/'
 #         }
 #       ];
 # delete record
 $comp->delete(2);
 # delete group of records
 $comp->delete([2,5,7,9]);
 # drop table
 $comp->table;

From command line to create or drop table:

 [root]# perl -MHTML::Puzzle::DBTable -e 'HTML::Puzzle::DBTable::create'
 Enter the DBD driver name [mysql]:
 Enter the database hostname [localhost]:
 Enter database port number [3128]:
 Enter database name: PuzzleTest
 Enter an userid which can manage tables [root]:
 Enter password: ********
 Enter table name: test
 Table test created succesful
 [root]# perl -MHTML::Puzzle::DBTable -e 'HTML::Puzzle::DBTable::drop'
 Enter the DBD driver name [mysql]:
 Enter the database hostname [localhost]:
 Enter database port number [3128]:
 Enter database name: PuzzleTest
 Enter an userid which can manage tables [root]:
 Enter password: ********
 Enter table name: test
 Table test succesful dropped

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module interact with a single db table containing data to be consumed by other modules of this package. With this module you can add, delete,or get data present in the table further that create or drop table itself. Standard db structure have some usefull fields for building every kind of web component like news, forums, helpdesk, guestbook pages. There is an id that univocally identify the db data record, a title that you could use for news title, a txt_short for a short description of data, a txt_long with long description, a link and link_img for storing links,a data field for datetiming and an enable field that you can use for identify old news. Table also have a timestamp field ts to save time entry. Anyway db table can be personalized.

METHODS

new()

Create an instance of HTML::Puzzle::DBTable. Requires two costructor parameters: dbh filled with a dbi handle to storing db and name with name of table where data are saved.

add(\%fieldsItem)

Insert a news in the table. Reguires as single params an hash reference that have db table field name for keys and field values for hash value. Obviously hash must have all required db table fields.

delete(\@ids)

Delete records in table. Requires a single parameter, an array ref with numerical ids of records to delete.

array_items($nrow,$order,\%filter)

Return an array ref of array ref of table rows. First array ref is a list of fields name returned. There are three optional parameters: nrow for getting only last nrow records, order is a string that must be asc or desc for ordering returned data and an hash reference containing a filter hash where keys are fields name and values are field value over which the where sql section will be built.

hash_items($nrow,$order,\%filter)

Return an array ref of hash ref of table rows. Every hash has field name as key and field value as hash value. There are three optional parameters: nrow for getting only last nrow records, order is a string that must be asc or desc for ordering returned data and an hash reference containing a filter hash where keys are fields name and values are field value over which the where sql section will be built.

create()

Create the table in the database. You can call this function as an instance methor or as a static method. For indeed, from command line like

 perl -MHTML::Puzzle::DBTable -e 'HTML::Puzzle::DBTable::create'

In this case will be asked for infos for connecting to database and the name of table to create.

drop()

Drop a table in the database. You can call this function as an instance methor or as a static method. For indeed, from command line like

 perl -MHTML::Puzzle::DBTable -e 'HTML::Puzzle::DBTable::drop'

In this case will be asked for infos for connecting to database and the name of table to drop.

DEBUG COMPONENT

There is also two static constants: a DEBUG_FILE_PATH and a DEBUG constant that enable debug infos written on DEBUG_FILE_PATH file.

Debug is disable by default.

AUTHOR

Bruni Emiliano, <info@ebruni.it>

SEE ALSO