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From: Paul Sharpe <paul@miraclefish.com>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DbFramework-1.05
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DbFramework is a collection of classes for manipulating Mysql
databases.  The classes are loosely based on the CDIF Data Model
Subject Area.  There are methods for representing data model objects
as HTML and a class which can be subclassed to add persistency to Perl
objects.  See the POD for further details.

The module includes a CGI application which provides an HTML forms
interface for manipulating Mysql databases.

Prerequisites
=============

  Alias
  CGI
  DBI
  Msql-Mysql-modules
  ePerl (for dbforms.cgi)

6-1-1999                    Paul Sharpe          <paul@miraclefish.com>
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RELEASE 1.05

= INTERFACE
  Table
    - New method dbh($dbh) (added pod for AUTOLOAD() method)
    = Improved form and template support
      - new() now takes list of form rather than template definitions 
        and evals configuration from config.pl files.
      - New method read_form()
      - More pod  
  - Default output templates now handle foreign keys by replacing them
    with columns from the related table.
  - <DbValue> template tag can now contain a list of attributes to be
    substituted for values.
  dbforms.cgi
    - fills values from related table for foreign keys in default
      output template.
    - Now handles user-defined forms.