NAME

CGI::AppBuilder - CGI Application Builder

SYNOPSIS

use CGI::AppBuilder;

my $cg = CGI::AppBuilder->new('ifn', 'my_init.cfg', 'opt', 'vhS:a:');
my $ar = $cg->get_inputs; 

DESCRIPTION

There are already many application builders out there. Why you need another one? Well, if you are already familiar with CGI::Builder or CGI::Application, this one will provide some useful methods to you to read your configuration file and pre-process your templates. Please read on.

new (ifn => 'file.cfg', opt => 'hvS:')

Input variables:

$ifn  - input/initial file name. 
$opt  - options for Getopt::Std

Variables used or routines called:

None

How to use:

my $ca = new CGI::AppBuilder;      # or
my $ca = CGI::AppBuilder->new;     # or
my $ca = CGI::AppBuilder->new(ifn=>'file.cfg',opt=>'hvS:'); # or
my $ca = CGI::AppBuilder->new('ifn', 'file.cfg','opt','hvS:'); 

Return: new empty or initialized CGI::AppBuilder object.

This method constructs a Perl object and capture any parameters if specified. It creates and defaults the following variables:

$self->{ifn} = ""
$self->{opt} = 'hvS:'; 

HISTORY

• Version 0.10

  This version is to extract out the app methods from CGI::Getopt class. It was too much for CGI::Getopt to include the start_app, end_app, build_html_header, and disp_form methods.

  0.11 Rewrote start_app method so that content-type can be changed.
  0.12 Moved disp_form to CGI::AppBuilder::Form,
       moved build_html_header to CGI::AppBuilder::Header, and 
       imported all the methods in sub-classes into this class.

• Version 1.0001

  Removed start_app and end_app to CGI::AppBuilder::Apps module.

SEE ALSO (some of docs that I check often)

Oracle::Loader, Oracle::Trigger, CGI::Getopt, File::Xcopy, CGI::AppBuilder, CGI::AppBuilder::Message, CGI::AppBuilder::Log, CGI::AppBuilder::Config, etc.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2005 ~ 2015 Hanming Tu. All rights reserved.

This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)