Name

CatalystX::Usul - A base class for Catalyst MVC components

Version

This document describes CatalystX::Usul version v0.17.$Rev: 1 $

Synopsis

   package MyApp::Controller;

   use Moose;

   BEGIN { extends qw(CatalystX::Usul::Controller) }


   package MyApp::Model;

   use Moose;

   extends qw(CatalystX::Usul::Model);

Description

These modules provide a set of extension base classes for a Catalyst web application. Features include:

Targeted at intranet applications

The identity model supports multiple backend authentication stores including the underlying operating system accounts

Thin controllers

Most controllers make a single call to the model and so comprise of only a few lines of code. The interface model stashes data used by the view to render the page

No further view programing required

A single template toolkit instance is used to render all pages as either HTML or XHTML. The template forms one component of the "skin", the other components are: a Javascript file containing the use cases for the Javascript libraries, a primary CSS file with support for alternative CSS files, and a set of image files

Designers can create new skins with different layout, presentation and behaviour for the whole application. They can do this for the example application, Munchies, whilst the programmers write the "real" application in parallel with the designers work

Flexible development methodology

These base classes are used by an example application, Munchies, which can be deployed to staging and production servers at the beginning of the project. Setting up the example application allows issues regarding the software technology to be resolved whilst the "real" application is being written. The example application can be deleted leaving these base classes for the "real" application to use

Subroutines/Methods

This package is a placeholder for POD and contains no methods or functions

Configuration and Environment

None

Diagnostics

None

Dependencies

Class::Usul

To make the Captchas work GD::SecurityImage needs to be installed which has a documented dependency on libgd which should be installed first

Incompatibilities

There are no known incompatibilities in this module

Bugs and Limitations

There are no known bugs in this module. Please report problems to the address below. Patches are welcome

Acknowledgements

Larry Wall - For the Perl programming language

Author

Peter Flanigan, <pjfl@cpan.org>

License and Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Flanigan. All rights reserved

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE