NAME

Zucchini - turn templates into static websites

VERSION

version 0.0.21

SYNOPSIS

  $ zucchini --create-config    # create a default config

  $ perldoc Zucchini::Config    # information for configuring Zucchini

  $ perldoc zucchini            # the worker script

DESCRIPTION

You have a hosted website. It's static. Your website has the same headers, footers, menu, etc.

Copying the same change from the header section in one file into the other fifty-eight files in your site is boring. It's also prone to error.

Ideally the site would be written using some kind of templating system, so header files et al only needed to be updated once.

This is where Zucchini comes in. Zucchini processes a directory of templates (written using Template::Toolkit markup) and outputs a static copy of each processed template.

You now have the source for a staic website, waiting to be uploaded to your remote server - which, conveniently, Zucchini can do for you; using rsync or ftp.

Zucchini is usually invoked through the zucchini script, which is installed as part of the package.

METHODS

new

Creates a new instance of the top-level Zucchini object:

  # create a new zucchini object
  $zucchini = Zucchini->new(
    \%cliopt
  );

gogogo

This function is called from the zucchini script and decides what actions to perform based on the command-line options passed to new()

  # work out what to do, and Just Do It
  $zucchini->gogogo;

process_templates

This function processes the template directories and outputs the static website source files.

  # generate the static site
  $zucchini->process_templates;

ftp_sync

This function transfers the static website source files to the remote server using an FTP solution.

  # transfer files to remote FTP site
  $zucchini->ftp_sync;

remote_sync

This function transfers the static website source files to the remote server using an rsync solution.

  # transfer files to remote server, using rsync
  $zucchini->remote_sync;

SEE ALSO

Zucchini::Config, Zucchini::Fsync, Zucchini::Rsync, Zucchini::Template, Template

AUTHOR

Chisel <chisel@chizography.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Chisel Wright.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Zucchini

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Zucchini