Welcome to perl-abook

Introduction

Perl-AddressBook is a collection of perl library modules which provide a unified interface for accessing addressbook entries stored in various types of databases.

The following database types are currently supported:

• AddressBook::DB::LDAP
• AddressBook::DB::LDIF
• AddressBook::DB::PDB (PalmOS)
• AddressBook::DB::DBI (SQL Databases)
• AddressBook::DB::Text
• AddressBook::DB::HTML

More of these will be added in the future.

• Change History
• perl-abook project page
• perl-abook-tech mailing list
• perl-abook-tech CVS

Features

• Configurable attribute mapping
• Simple methods for moving entries between backend databases.
• Entries can be synchronized between backend databases of different types.
• Attributes can be calculated "on the fly" (e.g. based on other attributes).

Requirements

The following perl library modules are required:

• XML::DOM
• Date::Manip

In addition, different backend drivers have different requirements. See the appropriate backend module documentation.

Installation

The latest version can be found here.

1. download and unpack
2. perl Makefile.PL
3. make
4. make test
5. make install

Documentation

• AddressBook - The base AddressBook object
• AddressBook::Entry - An AddressBook Entry
• AddressBook::Config - The AddressBook configuration object. Also configuration file information.

See also the man pages for the different backend databases.

Examples

The following sample files are provided in the examples directory. Note: It is highly recommended that you back up your addressbook database before running one of these scripts.

ldap-abook.conf	A sample configuration file which is used by all of the sample scripts
abook.palm	A PalmOS conduit which synchronizes a palm pilot with an LDAP database.
SyncAbook	Same as abook.palm, but written as a PilotManager conduit.
phonelist.cgi	A cgi script which will generate a list of names and phone numbers from an LDAP database.

See Also

The LDAP-Abook Project is a full-featured CGI interface, designed to work with an LDAP backend addressbook database. LDAP-Abook is based on the perl-abook library.

Last updated 1/14/2001

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