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Changes for version 1.00_01

  • As DBI has supported only perl 5.6.0 since 2003 v1.38 Apache::DBI now requires perl 5.6.0 as well.
    • Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
  • Fix a plethora of uninitialized variable warnings, general code cleanup, don't import unneeded symbols from Carp, Digest::SHA1, and Digest::MD5
    • Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
  • http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17073 $sth->rows is inconsistent across DBD::* drivers and sometimes always returns 0. We were using this to distinguish between a blank password and no passwd. Now we don't call this function.
    • Reported by: rkimmelmann@web.de
    • Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
  • http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17422 a fatal error involving mp1, mp2 constants co-existance was fixed in AuthDBI.
    • Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
  • http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17446 under mod_perl 2, the check to skip caching connections at server startup was broken; thus, causing children to incorrectly share dbh handles with the parent. Submitted by: clinton@traveljury.com
  • http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19491 a critical return was missing connect() under mod_perl2 Submitted by: perrin@elem.com
  • Moved module's repository to its new home in SVN from CVS http://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI
    • Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>

Modules

Authentication and Authorization via Perl's DBI
Initiate a persistent database connection

Provides

in lib/Apache/DBI.pm

Examples