NAME

       Ace::Browser::SiteDefs - Access to AceBrowser configuration files

SYNOPSIS

         use Ace;
         use Ace::Browser::AceSubs;
         use CGI qw(:standard);

         my $configuration = Configuration;
         my $docroot  = $configuration->Docroot;
         my @pictures = @{$configuration->Pictures};
         my %displays = %{$configuration->Displays};
         my $coderef  = $configuration->Url_mapper;
         $coderef->($param1,$param2);

DESCRIPTION

       Ace::Browser::SiteDefs evaluates an AceBrowser configuration file and returns a
       configuration object ("config object" for short).  A config object is a bag of
       dynamically-generated methods, derived from the scalar variables, arrays, hashes and
       subroutines in the configuration file.

       The config object methods are a canonicalized form of the configuration file variables, in
       which the first character of the method is uppercase, and subsequent characters are lower
       case.  For example, if the configuration variable was $ROOT, the method will be
       $config_object->Root.

   Working with Configuration Objects
       To fetch a configuration object, use the Ace::Browser::AceSubs Configuration() function.
       This will return a configuration object for the current database:

         $config_object = Configuration();

       Thereafter, it's just a matter of making the proper method calls.

          If the Configuration file is a....    The method call returns a...
          ----------------------------------    ----------------------------

          Scalar variable                       Scalar
          Array variable                        Array reference
          Hash variable                         Hash reference
          Subroutine                            Code reference

       If a variable is not defined, the corresponding method will return undef.

BUGS

       Please report them.

SEE ALSO

       Ace::Object, Ace::Browser::AceSubs, Ace::Browsr::SearchSubs, the README.ACEBROWSER file.

AUTHOR

       Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>.

       Copyright (c) 2001 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.  See DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.