spacey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all
Sorry to have to do this but I really need to ask a stupid question
I’m using the module Apache::AuthTicket and after following the example on the cpan site it works.
However the documentation is confusing me a little. This could be down to my misunderstanding or just my stupidity
I let you decide on that one.

I wish to change the login form to my own custom page.
Now I can see the documentation stipulates that you can overload subclasses. But to be honest I don’t understand this
im guess it means I can override the subroutine with my own? Possible with this next line?

In the example it talks about “void make_login_screen($r, String action, String destination)” this is were im starting to get confused
Is it simply the case of commenting out the make_login_screen in the original source and adding my own or can I feed some form of variable (like the one above) to apache/mod_perl to use another script/page to output the new login form?

If the later is correct were do I place such statement in apache or the original source.

As ever thanks in advance for any input you maybe able to give.
regards,
Gareth

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Re: Apache::AuthTicket
by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2004 at 21:18 UTC
    You need to make your own module which inherits from Apache::AuthTicket and override the make_login_screen method within it. Does that make sense to you?
[reply]
      Hello perrin, Thank you for taking you time to reply, In theory it does but in practice well that’s another matter :(

      I know how to call my own module but im unsure in this
      scenario were I would be placing the call to my module,
      im presuming in the apache config? im I even close?

      I guess what i require is a more detailed example. Do you know of any books that cover this module or similar ones.

      Again thanks for your help. regards
      Gareth

[reply]
        You would replace all calls to Apache::AuthTicket in your httpd.conf with calls to your module.

         <Location /foologinform>
     AuthType Apache::AuthTicket
     AuthName Foo
     SetHandler perl-script
     Perlhandler Your::Module->login_screen
 </Location>

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        You can find lots of help with this and other things on the mailing list at the mod_perl site or in one of the books about mod_perl recommended there.
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