"Dynamic" database handles?

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Folks,

I'm looking to use Class::DBI in an application where the DB connection
info is passed in at run time. I'm building a generic e-commerce system
around CGI::Application, HTML::Template and a few of my other favorite
modules.

The idea is I'd set up the relationships between tables in separate
classes via Class::DBI and then use the CDBI classes in my
CGI::Application modules along with Class::DBI::AsForm.

I must be dense, because I can't figure out a clean way to pass a DBI
handle or DSN info at run time, and I want this system to be generic
enough to completely avoid hard-coding database connections.

What am I missing? This is all meant to run under mod_perl, so please
keep this in mind.

-DJCP

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        Dan Collis Puro
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