Configure database connection in config file

Pass the db configuration info to the page templates via the
template constants feature.

site-generator

@@ -54,14 +54,13 @@ sub main {
 	# Load config file
 	read_config "site.cfg" => my %config;
 
-	my $tt = get_template_html();
+	my $tt = get_template_html($config{DBI});
 	generate_page($tt, $config{correspondents}{navigation}, $config{correspondents}{content});
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
-sub get_template_html {
-
+sub get_template_html (\%@)  {
 	# For an HTML based Template file, define the 
 	# template start and end tags to also function as 
 	# HTML comments to make the template file valid HTML.
@@ -71,6 +70,11 @@ sub get_template_html {
 		EVAL_PERL    => 1,
 		START_TAG	 => '<!--%',
 		END_TAG		 => '%-->',
+		CONSTANTS    => {
+			driver   => $_[0]{driver},
+			user     => $_[0]{user},
+			password => $_[0]{password},
+		}
 	}) || die $Template::ERROR, "\n";
 
 }

site.cfg

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# Configure the Perl DBI driver to allow the templates communicate 
+# with the database.
+# dbi:<driver name [SQLite, CSV, ADO, mSQL, etc.]>:<database name>
+[DBI]
+driver: dbi:SQLite:hpr.db 
+user: 
+password: 
+
 # Configure the navigation menu and the content templates for each page 
 # of the site:
 # [page_name]