I haven't been a big fan of DBI front-ends in the past; I particularly don't care for the ones that try to make an abstract interface around SQL, since I always seem to run into something the interface doesn't handle. But I do appreciate centralized logging and debugging facilities and other such features.

Today I needed to add HTML screening to one of our sites, which uses a home-brewed wrapper around DBI for inserts and updates. That was fortunate, since I could go into the two methods and call escape_html on each value being passed to DBI's execute method. Neat and simple, but it got me wondering.

It seems like other sites and tools would benefit from having a front-end that prepares data before DBI writes it -- maybe you only want to screen some HTML tags, or check for naughty words or what ever. I went looking around for such a beast, but couldn't find one, nor could I see an easy way to put a hook for such into the DBI code (though I didn't look very hard).

I checked a few modules on CPAN that seemed likely contenders; DBIx::Abstract has most of the other features of our home-brew, and would be as easily modified to handle this, but doesn't have a quote/escape hook.

So, anyone know of a good module for doing this, an easy way to hook the code into DBI, or a better solution?

In reply to Extensible DBI front-end by TheoPetersen

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