NAME
Catalyst::Helper::View::TTSite - Helper for TT view which builds a skeleton web site
SYNOPSIS
# use the helper to create the view module and templates
$ script/myapp_create.pl view HTML TTSite# add something like the following to your main application module
sub message : Global {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
$c->stash->{template} = 'message.tt2';
$c->stash->{message} ||= $c->req->param('message') || 'No message';
}
sub default : Private {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
$c->stash->{template} = 'welcome.tt2';
}
sub end : Private { # Or use Catalyst::Action::RenderView
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
$c->forward( $c->view('HTML') );
}DESCRIPTION
This helper module creates a TT View module. It goes further than Catalyst::Helper::View::TT in that it additionally creates a simple set of templates to get you started with your web site presentation.
It creates the templates in root/ directory underneath your main project directory. In here two further subdirectories are created: root/src which contains the main page templates, and root/lib containing a library of other template components (header, footer, etc.) that the page templates use.
The view module that the helper creates is automatically configured to locate these templates.
Default Rendering
To render a template the following process is applied:
The configuration template root/lib/config/main is rendered. This is controlled by the PRE_PROCESS configuration variable set in the controller generated by Catalyst::Helper::View::TTsite. Additionally, templates referenced by the PROCESS directive will then be rendered. By default the following additional templates are set: root/lib/config/col, which defines color names and RGB their RGB values and /root/lib/config/url, which defines site wide variables available to templates.
Next, the template defined by the WRAPPER config variable is called. The default wrapper template is located in root/lib/site/wrapper. The wrapper template passes files with .css/.js/.txt extensions through as text OR processes the templates defined after the WRAPPER directive: site/html and site/layout.
Based on the default value of the WRAPPER directive in root/lib/site/wrapper, the following templates are processed in order:
root/src/your_template.tt2
root/lib/site/footer
root/lib/site/header
root/lib/site/layout
root/lib/site/html
Finally, the rendered content is returned to the bowser.
METHODS
mk_compclass
Generates the component class.
mk_templates
Generates the templates.
SEE ALSO
Catalyst, Catalyst::View::TT, Catalyst::Helper, Catalyst::Helper::View::TT
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@cpan.org>
LICENSE
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.
NAME
[% class %] - Catalyst TTSite View
SYNOPSIS
See "[% app %]"
DESCRIPTION
Catalyst TTSite View.
AUTHOR
[% author %]
LICENSE
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.