User Contributed Perl Documentation                Publication(3)



     Publication::Publication - Perl extension for Publication
     instances

       use Publication::Publication;

       $publication = Publication::Publication->new(database_handle, type, number);

       $publication->{title};
       $publication->{abstract};
       ...

       This module provides an object to represent a publication, and is used to
       interact with the database.

     Use this module to interact with publications.


         Publication::Publication->new(@args):
                Overloaded:
                     * Given only a database handle, gets type 'TMP' and number of
                     the next available in the database
                     * Given a database handle, a type, and a number, gets the
                     current values for that publication in the database
                     * Given a database handle and a CGI object, creates a
                     publication with the parameters from the CGI object (if
                     they are correctly named)

         $pub->store():
                Stores the current values of the instance in the database

         $pub->delete():
                remove this instance from the database

         $pub->all_vals():
                Use to get all the values of the publication
                Returns: (number, type, year, year_pub, author, title, venue,
                citation, status, notes, hide, contact, email, advisor, category,
                abstract, funding)

         $pub->get_current_values():
                Reloads the current database values for the given number, type of
                this instance

         $pub->populate_cgi($cgi):
                Sets the values of the CGI object to the instances current values.

         $pub->print($format)
                Outputs the publication's information given the format string. The
                following are replaced as noted:
                    %n number
                    %T type
                    %t title
                    %l linked title
                    %Y year
                    %y public year
                    %A author
                    %v venue
                    %C citation
                    %s status
                    %n notes
                    %c contact
                    %e email
                    %a advisor
                    %k category
                    %f funding
                    %F comma seperated funding
                    %b abstract
                    %B link to popup window with abstract (html)

     Public Members:
         Anything in the database (num, type, title, ...)

     None by default.

     Publication::Search Publication::Form

     Eric Galis, <egalis@student.umass.edu<gt>

     Copyright 2004 by Eric Galis

     This library is free software; you can redistribute it
     and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.0          Last change: 2004-04-29                    2