NAME

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin - Base class for WebApp Toolkit plugins

SYNOPSIS

  my $obj = $c->plugin('Name')->method( ... );     # Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Name->method

    or

  $c->plugin('Name')->method( ... );

DESCRIPTION

A simple mechanism for loading WebApp Toolkit plugins.

PLUGINS

There are many plugins that provide additional functionality to your web application.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::CGI - Common methods for dealing with HTTP requests.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Cookie - Common methods for creating and manipulating web browser cookies.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DateTime - Common methods for dealing with Date/Time.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DBI - Database interface wrapper for MySQL, PostGre, and Oracle.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::File - Common methods for processing and outputting files.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Filters - Common methods for filtering HTTP request parameters.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::JSON - JSON module wrapper.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Mail - Methods for sending template based multi-format e-mail.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Memcached - Cache::Memcached module wrapper.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Session - Provides session handling methods.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Session::File - Store persistent data on the filesystem.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Session::Memcached - Store persistent data using memcached (memory cache daemon).

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Session::MySQL - Store persistent data in a MySQL database.

Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Validate - Common methods used for validating user input.

INSTALLATION

Perl one liner using CPAN.pm:

  $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Name'

Use of CPAN.pm in interactive mode:

  $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
  cpan> install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::Name
  cpan> quit

Just like the manual installation of Perl modules, the user may need root access during this process to insure write permission is allowed within the intstallation directory.

AUTHOR

Marc S. Brooks, <mbrooks@cpan.org> http://mbrooks.info

COPYRIGHT

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

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html